NAICS 561599 all other travel arrangement and reservation services obligations

A residual travel tag, not airline tickets

NAICS 561599 is all other travel arrangement and reservation services. Contracting officers assign it when the principal purpose is travel arrangement or reservation work that the residual Census class covers — not a scheduled airline, not a hotel operator, and not a conventional travel agency if the officer used a different 561 code. This $1,628,003,383.57 is that residual tag. It is not a count of passenger miles and not a per-diem budget.

Six hundred ninety-two awards produced a mean of about $2.4 million. Federal travel-support vehicles can be large, multi-year reservation and arrangement contracts, which pulls the mean well above a single itinerary. The packet does not count trips booked, hotel nights, or tickets issued.

Wired or wireless telecommunications carriers move voice and data; they are not this travel-arrangement residual. An airline operating certificate is a transportation NAICS, not 561599.

Concentrated awards

The 692-award book is concentrated relative to high-count commodity codes. Dividing $1,628,003,383.57 by 692 awards is a mean obligation per award identifier, not a cost per traveler and not a fare.

Travel-arrangement contracts often obligate estimated program values and pay as services are used. Unused option years leave obligated balances unpaid. Treating $1.6 billion as trips already taken would overstate cash.

What this total excludes

Assistance that funds state tourism marketing often lacks NAICS and does not enter $1,628,003,383.57. In-house agency travel offices are not 561599 contracts. Lodging, air transportation, and conventional travel-agency classes are separate NAICS families.

Reservation platforms tagged to a software or data-processing code follow the principal class the officer selected. Those dollars would not sit in this residual travel total. Relocation support, reservation platforms, and residual arrangement work can share 561599 when that is the principal class. The $1,628,003,383.57 total does not split those tasks across the 692 awards.

How to use the 561599 hub

Read $1.6 billion and 692 awards as the residual travel-arrangement tag, then open the all other travel arrangement and reservation services industry page for award-level fields. Rank 561 administrative codes on the all-industries index without converting this residual class into an airline or hotel total.

This guide does not add passenger counts because they are not in the facts object. A conventional travel-agency contract tagged to a more specific 561 travel code is not this residual book. Quote obligations, not tickets used, and keep passenger-mile estimates out because they are not in the facts object.

Classification limits

Residual travel arrangement is not scheduled air transportation and not lodging. Mixed travel-and-logistics vehicles follow the principal NAICS. SpendingVault reports the tagged 561599 sum.

Extract updates will move $1,628,003,383.57 and 692 with USAspending.

Residual travel dollars versus tickets used

Six hundred ninety-two awards at $1,628,003,383.57 produce a mean of about $2.4 million. That concentration is typical of large travel-arrangement vehicles, not of thousands of individual itineraries stored as separate awards. USAspending may still fold task orders into one identifier. Dividing dollars by 692 is therefore not a fare and not a hotel-night price. Unused program years leave obligated balances unpaid. Treating $1.6 billion as trips already taken overstates cash.

Scheduled air transportation, lodging, and conventional travel-agency classes are different NAICS families. A contracting officer who tagged an airline operations contract or a hotel concession to those codes kept those dollars off this residual hub. Assistance that funds state tourism marketing often omits NAICS and stays outside $1,628,003,383.57. Open the all other travel arrangement and reservation services industry page for award-level fields. Rank 561 administrative codes on the all-industries index. Cite USAspending.gov. A searcher asking how much the federal government spent on travel should still separate residual arrangement contracts from airline operations and lodging. The $1,628,003,383.57 figure answers the NAICS 561599 question only. The 692-award count answers how many award identifiers carried that tag, not how many trips occurred. Open the all other travel arrangement and reservation services industry page, then compare other 561 administrative codes on the all-industries index. Keep the language to obligations recorded in USAspending.gov, and do not convert the mean of about $2.4 million into a fare.

Questions

How much is obligated under NAICS 561599?

All other travel arrangement and reservation services contracts in USAspending show $1,628,003,383.57 in obligations across 692 awards. That is a residual travel-arrangement tag, not airline operations and not hotel rooms. The figure is obligations, not outlays. Assistance without a NAICS code is excluded from this industry extract.

What is the average residual travel-arrangement award?

Dividing $1,628,003,383.57 by 692 awards yields about $2.4 million. That mean often reflects multi-year reservation vehicles rather than a single itinerary. It is not a fare per traveler and not a hotel-night price. The packet does not publish a median or a count of trips booked.

Does this include federal airline or hotel spending?

Only contract actions tagged 561599. Air transportation and lodging are separate NAICS families. Mixed travel packages follow the principal code the officer selected. This $1.6 billion is the residual arrangement tag. Use transportation and lodging hubs for those classes instead of this residual 561 code.

Are these dollars already spent on trips?

No. USAspending reports obligations on this hub, not outlays. Open program years and unused options can leave balances unliquidated after the award is recorded. The 692-award count is not a proof of tickets used. Cite USAspending.gov for the tagged extract on SpendingVault.