Escort agencies are companies that book and dispatch escort girls to a customer's house, hotel room, or requested location.

Some agencies also provide escort girls for longer durations, who may stay with the client or travel along on a holiday or business trip.  This is not the bulk of the Escort Market by any means and these Escort Services are targeted at the rich and wealthy businessman who may have weekends away in London, Milan or Monaco.

 From a legal perspective, escort agencies claim that they are dispatching these individuals to provide a social or conversational service, since prostitution laws often forbid taking payment for sex or communicating for the purpose of arranging a contract for sexual services.

Escort agencies often recruit individuals to work as escorts by placing employment advertisements in a magazine or newspaper. Escort agencies typically maintain a list of escorts of different ages and appearances to cater to the varying interests of clients. Some agencies may specifically deal in a certain type of escort. There are male-for-male, female-for-male, and female-for-female escort agencies, as well as a few male-for-female agencies. Agencies commonly specialize in only one sex. Transsexuals are available from some escort agencies.

The agency collects the client's contact information and calls the escort. Usually, to protect the identity of the escort and ensure effective communication with the client, the agency arranges the appointment. Sometimes it may be up to the escort to contact the client directly to make arrangements for location and time of an appointment. Generally the escort is also expected to call the agency upon arrival at the location and upon leaving, which improves the safety of the escort.

The most common place in the UK for an Escort Agency to set up is in London.  If you are thinking of setting up a London Escort Agency beware, at last count there were over 250 Escort Agencies in London and this is rising every month!