Travel Search Engines, Travel Websites

Travel websites are one type of B2C websites. Travelers can search for the availability and prices on hotel rooms, flight tickets, and hotel + flight + car package deals on online travel websites:

Vertical Travel Search

Travel sites are available as vertical search in the form of travel search engines. Travel search engines allow travelers to narrow down hotel/flight search results through hotel/flight price comparisons:

Travel Reviews, Travel to China

Travel reviews including hotel reviews, attraction reviews and destination reviews that are written by travelers can be found on travel review sites:

To get good brief overview about different places in China before you travel to China, use:

Online Travel Industry

The travel industry was one of the first industries that have been made available “online”.

Wikipedia defines travel websites as:

A travel website is a website on the world wide web, that is dedicated to travel. The site may be focused on travel reviews, the booking of travel, or a combination of both. Approximately seventy million consumers researched travel plans online in July 2006. Travel bookings are the single largest component of e-commerce.

Wikipedia defines travel agencies as:

A travel agency is a retail business that sells travel related products and services to customers on behalf of suppliers such as airlines, car rentals, cruise lines, hotels, railways, sightseeing tours and package holidays that combine several products.

Travel Websites in Screenshots

Google Flight Search:

    Google Flight Search

Bing’s Travel Destinations:

    Bing's Travel Destinations

Kayak:

    Kayak

Travel Muse:

    Travel Muse

Comments

One Response to “Travel Search Engines, Travel Websites”

  1. Luis Pires on September 20th, 2011 4:24 pm

    Hello,

    While wrtiting about travel websites, search and reservation search engines, how is it possible to leave Booking.com left out?

    While hotelier that I am, that is one of the single largest channels the
    I use to receive guests and reservations, as good as get a fair feedback from the guests.

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