What Are The Best Travel Search Engines On The Internet?

By Jordan Ebor


Now with the advent of the internet it is much easier to be able to customise your own travel plans and book everything you need online. Gone are the days when finding the best possible travel prices was the job specifically of a travel agent, as they were the only ones that had access to be able to book everything for you.

So you already know that the internet is one big world and there are plenty of travel related internet sites, with different sites offering everything from flights, hotels, vacation packages, tours, cruises, travel insurance, car hire, sightseeing trips, add-on activities, coach tours and more. What really makes online travel search cool is that it is now possible for anyone in Australia to book travel deals directly with online travel agents in the United States, Europe or Asia, by-passing the traditional method of using the prices that you can get from travel agents in their own country.

There are three main types of online travel search sites on the internet. The online travel agent, the metasearch/aggregator site and the travel comparison/review site.

A travel metasearch engines or aggregators are websites that uses search tools that sends a user requests to several other search engines and/or databases and. A travel metasearch engines works on the idea that the internet is way too big for any one search engine to index it all and that more comprehensive search results can be obtained by combining the results from several search engines. This also may save the user from having to use multiple search engines separately. Travel metasearch engines conduct searches across multiple other travel search engines to get instant prices and availability of flights, hotels, vacations, car rentals, etc. These travel metasearch engines crawl through the airline, hotel and online travel websites, get the information from those sites together, and display it all on one page. Metasearch engines usually process incoming data to eliminate duplicate entries. Once you choose the best option for you, these travel aggregators and metasearch engines the redirect you to an airline, cruise, hotel, or car rental site or Online Travel Agent for the final purchase of a ticket. Some of the more popular travel metasearch and aggregator sites that you might know are KAYAK, Mobissimo, Momondo, Wego and Skyscanner.

The trend to book travel online will naturally continue especially in emerging economies such as China, India and Brazil. The internet has certainly made it easier and in some ways cheaper than using your traditional travel agent down the road. Research suggests that the average consumer visits around four sites when shopping for flights online alone.

But are you sick and tired of spending hours trying to find every possible airline, hotel and other travel site yourself? Would you prefer an easier way to be able to find the websites that have the best travel deals at the best possible prices?




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