Best Travel tips to help you become your own Travel Agent

The other day, I overheard a conversation between two women discuss their summer vacation plans. A telling the other, that she had gone to his local travel agent and asked for a cheap package holidays in Spain. The agent had quickly succeeded in finding a vacation that suits and Lady charged it immediately.

Other woman said that she wished she could do the same but had been able to find a travel agency, which could help. Apparently, it is recommended a person she knew of Northern Cyprus to her.Description of its climate, fantastic beaches, beautiful scenery and welcoming local people deeply appealed to her, but she had been able to find any travel agency offers package holidays there. the person who recommended her Northern Cyprus explained how it was possible to book flights and accommodation online but she felt anxious about not going through a travel agency.

I was quite surprised to hear this, taken on the recording of total dependence of the travel agencies and ignorance about the Internet travel sites. This was, of course, 2008 in the U.K. where traditional travel agencies long ago been marginalised by online travel sites Even conversation. developed it was clear that neither woman knew anything about what means Internet offerings in this regard.

It made me think of how many other people who were around need tips on organizing trips online and when I got home, I decided to write down the following seven steps for them.

Step 1: find out about the travel destination

Open Google and type in the search box, the name of the country or by way of derogation from the General area you want to holiday in, followed by the words "travel information" or "travel guide".

For example;

"Spain travel information". Browse more of the sites for your search and then decide which throw gives you the best travel tips relevant to your holiday needs. Step 2: determining the actual resort Use the best sites you find from step 1 to decide which resort or location offers you most of what you want your holiday. For example, sites with secluded beaches or beaches with lots of facilities, resorts, which has plenty to keep the children occupied or quiet villages in scenic places, etc. Have familiarised yourself with everything you want to know about the resort or the site, determine the closest airports (or other relevant transport Centres). Step 3: find the appropriate accommodation Once you have found a few resorts that meets your criteria, look for suitable accommodation in them; this may require that the type a new keyword in Google, because the Web sites you have looked at so far may have sufficiently detailed information on specific accommodation in a given location.

However, they may have some links to other Web sites that do.If so, you can check out the links out before you start a new search.

If you need to do a new search, they would be the best keywords to use something like;

Name of resort or location followed by the word "accommodation". For example, if after the researcher southern Spain, you had decided, did you like what you had read about Mojacar as a holiday resort, you would write; "Mojacar accommodation".

Here is a tip worth to remember: you can refer to the other pages, the website that you already have open, so keep them open by doing a search, the accommodation in a new tab.In the event of you don't know about using tabs, take a look at your browser tools options and learn how to set your browser so that you can open new pages in new tabs.
Step 4: check the cheapest flight availability

When you have found that the accommodation is available in your selected location, the next step is to check out what flights (or other transport) are available to get you to the resort.

Open another tab on your browser and this time type in the search term "cheapest flights" followed by the name of the nearest airport. If there are other, more remote airports, as you would be willing to consider, you can run separate searches for each airport.

Spend time checking for flights because of the considerable variations in the fares provided exit, not only from the flight operator for flight operator, but also from one airport to another, even when they are more or less the same distance from your departure airport and operated by the same company.Very significant price fluctuations will also be found by trying different departure and arrival dates.
Step 5: provisionally book accommodation

Suppose that you're the availability of flights (or other transport) at any time and within your budget, you will be able to provisionally book accommodation.



Return to the browser tab you open with the Web sites with accommodation detailed and follow the instructions for contacting the person or organisation offers accommodation.

Sometimes this will be an automatic online process, and sometimes you must send an e-mail message.

Submit the dates you have decided from the flight availability research. You are not usually asked for a deposit at this stage, but if you inform the accommodation owner to desired them to provisionally keep dates until after you have booked your flight. Step 6: Booking your flightHave received confirmation that the accommodation is available for you between the selected dates, the return to the homepage, where you find the cheapest flight deal and book your outbound and return flights.Very occasionally, you may be unlucky and flights on the selected dates are no longer available.If so, you must select new dates and repeat step 5.Step 7: Verify AccommodationWhen you have your flight has been reserved for you in a safe position to confirm your accommodation booking. This normally requires a deposit is paid, either online or by bank transfer. Either way, the balance is normally paid at the arrival to the accommodation.

The author is a travel article writer and co-owner site best-travel-tips, which aims to give travel tips and information on possible vacation vacation destinations worldwide