visakhapatnam following a series of incidents where some travel agents collected lakhs of rupees from unsuspecting customers before vanishing overnight the government has decided to register all travel agents in the state several complaints have been received against a few flybynight travel agents the government which was planning to fix a module to monitor all travel agents in the state issued an order two days back said k vijay mohan president of tours travels association of apthe decision is meant to encourage tourism service standards and ease of tourism investments in ap the government has identified tourism as one of the key service sectors for the growth and development of the state this registration has other advantages too in the wake of covid19 travel agents have requested for a few grants and help from the government the registration would make them eligible for all kinds of governmentsponsored initiatives incentives subsidies and schemes tourism minister muttamsetti srinivasa rao told toi