Internet Vs. Travel Agent: Which Is The Best Way To Plan Your Holiday

By Thomas Clarke

Assembling a spur of the moment vacation cab be quite a challenge, and if it weren't for the internet, would just about be inconceivable. The internet, may be considered negative to many individuals, however it does offer many benefits for those last minute details of your trip. Take a moment to think about every long distance phone call you will have to make, as well as calls to operators for business numbers. Then think about all the individuals You will be required to converse with before are able to reserve a suitable accommodation and a flight to your vacation destination.

Lets say you were going to take a commercial airline to your destination, you would first need to make numerous phone call to all the major airline, as a means of finding flight times and travel costs of each individual flight as well as what flights were still available. This would also need to be done in order to find a hotel room for when you finally arrive at your vacation destination. If you were planning to visit New York City, this would require you to get the telephone numbers for all the hotels in the area that you are looking to stay in. This would also mean that you will have to refer to a map of the area so that you can determine if the accommodations are actually in the area you are looking for. Once you have found the hotels in your desired area, you will then need to make phone calls to each of these hotels and check on cost as well as availability.

In order to avoid all the hassle of making phone call, without utilizing the internet, is to contact a travel agent and have them do all the leg work for you. The problem with hiring a travel agent, although very convenient, is that they often get kick backs from certain airline and hotels. This means that you can never be certain you have gotten the best price for all your travel arrangements. After all, a travel agent doesn't care about saving you a few hundred dollars if the company does not offer them kick backs. Instead they will book you with the airline or hotel that will give them the highest return.

When you want to find the best prices, without having to make hours and hours of phone calls, the internet is the only way to go. You can research anything related to your trip and you will have all the information right at your fingertips. Many unemployed travel agents blame their demise on the internet, and they are just in doing so.

Need a hotel room? Check it out online. Need a flight? Check it out online. Need to rent a car? Again, check it online and find almost everything you need to plan that last minute getaway to the beach or the island or the mountains. Where ever you want to go, the information and ability to make the plans are only a few clicks away at any given moment. Get clicking. - 31980

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