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A while back, I wrote about a web site that serves as a clearing house for brochures from a variety of travel suppliers. I said, I'd test out the service.

Well today I came home to find a hefty parcel sitting on my doorstep, just ten days after ordering. Not too shabby. I'm kicking off my shoes and settling in for a good read.

For more information or to order your own set of brochures, from Travelpromotionsclick here. Seems like it's a service home-based travel agents should know about.

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There's a site that lets you order supplier brochures by the dozen.

It offers a grab bag of suppliers, pretty much covering the globe, some well known, others less so. You can browse the available brochures by destination and order single copies or small quantities, which vary by supplier. There are two "Easy-Order" options that let you get a single copy of every brochure (30 total) or a box with the maximum number of each brochure.

I'm not sure how useful this service is, other than to give the participating suppliers the feeling that their message is getting out there. I suspect the system results in a lot of wasted brochures going out to the travel agent version of tirekickers.

Still, if they have what you're looking for or need, it might be something worth looking at. It's also, I suppose, one way to do some scatter shot research into what's available if you're a beginning home-based travel agent.

As far as I could tell, there are no strings attached and the service is free. I placed an order to test it out and will report back