Travel agent Khayyam Ali turns to barbering Thursday 25 February 2021 Travel agent Khayyam Ali got certified and opened his own barber shop, thus fulfilling his dream faster than he expected due to the impact of the pandemic on the travel industry. - IN less than a year Khayyam Ali has gone from running a travel agency to cutting men’s hair. The owner of the Claxton Bay-based Kelvin Cruise and Travel Services Ltd told Newsday he anticipated the fallout in the travel industry even before a pandemic was declared, and started putting a contingency plan in place. “When news first broke about covid19 I started paying attention. I mentioned to my father, ‘This virus looks like it will spread throughout the world and might affect travel.’