Travel online business

The Internet provides an effective means for sustainable development and for an electronic infrastructure for the collection of information and transactions, for the traveler and the supplier. It is an ideal method for the people at the source of the information, travel information. It is an essential element for the travel costs associated with sites offering relevant and easy to find the information parallel to a service where appropriate reservation.

It can be used fully in the search for a destination, fill in all aspects of the festival, including the cost of travel and communication with others, the same ideas, or have been through similar experiences. It travelers an excellent opportunity to compare and contrast everything on its offer before a purchase.

The information available online is constantly revised and presented very logical, easy to use and read. The volume of consumers who rely on these information to decisions about the trip is also available in the heights. In addition, the characteristics and advantages of the use of the Internet to search for and the holidays are improving and updating of all time. For example, consumers do not have to receive the printing of bank notes of travel. They have simply print out all the information they need, even after they receive automatically via e-mail.

The "Net" means that people can now easily travel planning for themselves. This is not only an open greatest amount of the cuts to the general public, but also the people and the joy in the enjoyment of planning and booking their own trips.

Before the Internet, the travel agencies were the main source of information and facilitate bookings in the travel industry. However, the occurrence of Net popularity seriously, in the future success of a telephone or face-to-face based travel agency. The Internet allows people the opportunity to plan and book their trips. He revolutionized the travel industry as a whole and of incitement to a decline in the proportion of customers through a travel agency.

There are four business models Internet can be in the travel industry. Economic and examples of models within the company are the following:

1) The model dealers, the buyers and sellers. One could argue that this model is in fact a travel agency online. Sites in this category include business model Travelocity, recently bought and LastMinute.com Expedia-a broadcast from Microsoft.

2) The model for advertising, comprehensive information about travel in income generated by various advertising. The advantage of this model is its lower. A site in the business model, the information about the United Kingdom is TREKtheUK.com.

3) The direct model allows the service provider directly with the public. Initially, British Airways is the longest and has a large market and conventional competitive advantage. Secondly, EasyJet have the Internet as essential to their competence as a basis.

4) The model of community is one of the longest operational models introduced on the Internet, without a story to a data stream of revenue. Two sites, which are in this category are Lonely Planet based on the books have been published since more than thirty years, and IA-a community of individuals who have a passion for travel.

Although one can argue that some sites are a mixture of several business models, it is interesting to note that just because the company generates the majority of its revenue online, that does not mean that the Conventional models can not be used.