Booking flight tickets, tour arrangement, renting cars and reserving hotel rooms can be one of the biggest markets for shopping on Internet. This gives you a unique opportunity to choose the best alternative. You can save many hundred pounds by booking online. But don't choose the first alternative that occurs. Check out many web sites or contact airline companies, travel agents or the hotels directly before you make up your mind.
Travel to exciting destinations is often a matter of money. Many save money during years before they can fulfil their dream about an adventurous journey. The destination you always dreamed about could be closer than you knew. By searching several alternatives on the Internet you can find offers that you weren't aware of, and that could turn you dream in to reality faster than you expects.
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Using these tools you can find may good offers on tours on Internet. It is reasonable that the customers get something back for searching, booking and paying flight tickets and hotel rooms trough the Internet. The thought behind it is to improve efficiency and reduce the high cost. And in addition when the customers also do their part of the job, it is reasonable that the prices gets lower.
Advice
Here are some tips you should follow:
- Don't believe that everything offered on Internet is cheap.
- Be careful with paying in advance. If you pay in advance you have given away your most important advantage if something lacks or is wrong with the product. Many swindlers have a professional look on their web site that gives a serious impression. Unfortunately there are many examples of people who has lost their money because of swindle.
- Paying for some or all of your flight, or other things, by credit card gives you extra protection. A credit card company is affiliated with the supplier for handling a refund if the goods or services are delivered as promised.
- Your legal claim is against the supplier, but if the vendor (supplier) don't keep their promise, you can claim your card issuer. The protection covers goods worth a certain amount. If you only pay a small deposit by credit card you are still covered in accordance to the total cost of your flight or holiday (check the amount here).
- Check the company by calling them to find out whether they are available on phone, or contact the register for company registration.
Many web sites related to travel have unclear information about tax and duty. Here do the costs various often, and the listed prices can change from week to another.
The advantages on Internet are many
Travellers have become eager to shop on Internet due to better security for payment by credit card. Trends indicate that there is today a general willingness shop online.
There is no doubt that the Internet has the potential to replace intermediaries such as shops, distributors, agencies and branch offices. That should cut the prices sustainable. The Internet will also replace leaflets, brochures and postage, which also should lead to lower prices for the customers.
The interactivity gives you a new dimension; you can take quicker decisions based on updated information and book immediately. After you have read all the necessary details and watched the photos, you can just click on the button to order!
You can also ask for more information by sending e-mails. This goes much faster, and it is also cheaper than using phone, fax or mail. Trough e-mails you can receive additional information in attachments, photos, video and audio clips, which give you a better impression of the travel destinations and hotels that you consider.
Today the Internet is also available through WAP mobile telephones (Wireless Application Protocol). Here you can surf the same way as you do with our PC. The opportunities are endless for doing the most arrangements here, easy and quick, when ever and where ever you want to do it. Internet, telephone and TV are melting together. There will come more than people ever have dreamed about. The sky is the limit.
Hopefully it would be safer to shop flight tickets and more for travellers on the Internet in the future. Most business operators are serious and when it comes to all, the chance to get cheated is small. Find the best fare for your next flight now!
Stein Morten Lund, 21 September 2000
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