# Detect tampered and deepfake Travel Agency Booking > A travel agency booking confirmation stands in for flights, transfers, hotels and a day-by-day programme in a single page, which makes forging one cheaper than forging the four documents it replaces. The agency vouches for all of it under its own licence number and stamp, so the fraud starts a level up: a real voucher reissued for travellers who never booked, or an agency that exists only as a letterhead. TamperCheck examines the voucher for the parts that were rewritten. **Canonical URL:** https://tampercheck.ai/documents-support/travel_agency_booking **API document class:** `travel_agency_booking` --- ## What a genuine travel agency booking contains A confirmation from an agency carries the trading name, address, telephone and licence or IATA accreditation number, and a voucher number in the agency's own sequence. It names each traveller as the passport spells them, the package or tour name, the departure and return dates, and the day-by-day programme: cities, nights in each, transfers, excursions and the hotels with their street addresses. Below that sit the inclusions and exclusions, the price per person and the total, the payment status, and an authorised signature over the company stamp. The programme is what holds the rest of the document honest. Nights in the itinerary have to equal nights in the hotel list, which have to cover every date between arrival and departure, including the ones spent moving between cities. The country of first entry and the country of longest stay decide which consulate should be receiving the application at all, so a rearranged itinerary changes the answer to that question. Price per person multiplied by the traveller count is the total, and the payment status has to match the receipt filed behind it. ## How travel agency booking forgeries are made ### Traveller names added to a live tour Names are inserted into the passenger list of a genuine group booking the applicant has no part in. The added line sits in the same table as the real travellers but rarely matches their kerning or row height, and the headcount stops agreeing with the total price printed underneath. ### Licence and accreditation numbers invented The agency's licence or IATA number is fabricated, or copied from a competitor's website. These numbers follow fixed national and industry formats, so an invented one tends to be the right shape and the wrong value, or to belong to a company other than the one on the letterhead. ### Date extension across the package Departure and return dates are pushed out to justify a longer stay, but the day-by-day programme is not rebuilt to match. The document then promises eleven days of touring inside a fourteen-day window, with hotel nights that stop short of the return flight. ### Cancelled vouchers kept in circulation The voucher is genuine and was genuinely issued, then cancelled and refunded once the appointment was over. Nothing on the page has been altered, so the document is authentic and the booking is not, which is why consulates ask agencies to confirm status rather than trusting the paper. ### Stamp and signature reproduction The authorised signature and round agency stamp are scanned from one voucher and applied to others. The pair travels together at a fixed offset, appears at identical rotation on every copy, and lies flat on top of the text instead of overprinting it the way wet ink does. ### Agencies that exist only on paper A trading name, a logo, an address and a voucher template assembled in an afternoon, with a website behind them where the operation is organised. The documents are internally faultless, so they are assessed on generation signatures and on whether the agency answers at the contact details it prints. ## What TamperCheck checks on a travel agency booking TamperCheck runs 200+ forensic checks across three layers and returns a risk score from 0 to 100 with plain-English findings tied to specific regions of the document. These three carry the most weight on this document class. ### Stamp authenticity and placement Stamps are assessed for whether the ink was impressed onto the page or printed as part of it, and for whether the impression was placed digitally after the fact. ### Signature forgery analysis Signature regions are assessed for ink consistency and for how the stroke sits on the page, which distinguishes a genuine pen stroke from a pasted image of one. ### Letterhead, logo, and issuer plausibility Issuer branding is checked for resolution and compression consistency against the body text it sits on. A logo lifted from a website carries the signature of its source, not of the document. ### And many more checks The three above are the layers that carry the most weight on a travel agency booking. Every upload runs the full suite of 200+ checks regardless of document class, spanning file structure and metadata, pixel-level forensics, font and text rendering, optical and print characteristics, provenance signals, AI-generation signatures, and many more checks. ## Who verifies a travel agency booking, and why Consulates reviewing Schengen tourism visa applications. In each case the document is being used to unlock money, access, or a legal status, which is exactly what makes it worth forging. ## How to verify a travel agency booking in 4 steps 1. **Check the fields against each other.** Read travel dates, traveller names, and agency licence number together rather than one at a time. Forgers typically change one value and leave the rest of the document describing the original. 2. **Inspect the file metadata.** Open the document properties and look at the producer, creation date, and modification date. A document produced by a consumer PDF editor, or created long after the date printed on its face, is worth a closer look. 3. **Ask for a second document.** Request a corroborating document from the same issuer or an adjacent period. Forgery effort concentrates on one file, so inconsistencies surface as soon as there are two to compare. 4. **Run a forensic check.** Manual review catches obvious edits but not field-level pixel manipulation or synthetic generation. TamperCheck runs 200+ forensic checks on a travel agency booking and returns a risk score from 0 to 100 in about a minute, at $0.50 per document. ## Frequently asked questions ### How do consulates verify travel agency bookings? They contact the agency and confirm the booking is still live, which is the one check the document cannot answer for itself. Beyond that, the licence or accreditation number on the letterhead is checked against the national tourism register, the day-by-day programme is read for nights that do not add up, and traveller names are compared with the passports filed. ### Can a tour booking be faked for a visa? Yes, and it is attractive to fake because one voucher replaces flights, hotels, transfers and a programme. The common versions are names added to a genuine group booking, an invented licence number under a copied letterhead, and a real voucher cancelled after the appointment. Only the first two leave forensic traces in the file; the third leaves none at all. ### What should a travel agency booking confirmation include? It should name the agency with its licence or IATA number and working contact details, the travellers as their passports spell them, a voucher number, the package and its dates, a day-by-day programme accounting for every night, the hotels with addresses, the inclusions and exclusions, the price and payment status, and an authorised signature over the agency stamp. ### How can I check whether an agency voucher was edited? Compare the arithmetic and the calendar first: price per person against the total, nights in the hotel list against nights in the programme, and programme dates against the flights. Then run the file forensically. 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