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A travel supplier is any company or person selling a travel product. Airlines offer airline seats, travel insurers offer travel insurance, and tour guides offer escort services. But as you will see, definitions are flexible and it is not uncommon to find one company acting as several different kinds of supplier. A tour operator may also be a retail travel agency as well as a wholesaler of airline tickets or a consolidator, all under one roof! When you are designing your own tours, you may deal with a number of these suppliers individually or choose to work through an existing tour operator who offers an already assembled package.