Does The Internet Benefit Small Travel Businesses?

Yes, of course it is, but as much as it should?

When you think of the number of directories and travel portals available to travelers might think it's a free world normal business conventions, unfortunately, is often limited by the restrictions that travelers do not appreciate it. Travel Award is one of the conventions that are not yet completely free of restrictions and is understandable, because the distribution considerations.

The travel companies that use traditional distribution channels to sell their products should take account of commission payments to different levels of intermediaries, entrance, tourism, shopping wholesale and retail, all they need have a percentage of their efforts to enable travel services and products to reach consumers.

However, websites reach directly to consumers and allows them to make direct bookings to travel suppliers, but may still incur costs attributed to these intermediaries. But to put a price on two levels for each product might discourage agents representing products that had found a new way. This is where TopTravelSites intervened with its new development service for travel provider that wants to continue the traditional supply chain, but also wants to encourage travelers who are comfortable with their own arrangements directly with suppliers and not require the services of travel agents, not the Internet.

The service called TopTravelVouchers offers travelers a "fair price rate" direct bookings but the supplier still suffering the cost of the commission.

This new format is performed by the travel operator to issue a bond prices in exchange for marketing, promotion and release of travelers directly to their websites to make your reservations. Travelers reference to deeply discounted to their cash values that allows the traveler to be the recipient of a prize "almost clear" sold for packaging or service. The operator of TopTravelVouchers not the normal costs that are attributable to wholesale and retail stores, reservation systems, brochures and high staffing and therefore able to encourage travelers to book directly with your customers and get a save money for their efforts. It is indeed a travel agent that does not sell travel, Only coupons to use for travel purchased travel companies involved in the travel service.

Many travel companies do not use intermediaries, often because of the small size of his books of operation, but still willing to pay a commission or fee for a referral or a sale. They have yet to make travelers aware of your products and services and to encourage and reward the ability to reach travelers who prefer to deal directly with the operators.

There are thousands of smaller travel companies around the world ranging from B & B, Family Boutique Hotels, turn smaller operators, adventure and Eco Tours rarely seen by the vast majority of travelers. These operators are not in the glossy brochures or represented by travel agents travel, but often have great products and services that can be found on their websites. Many are willing to pay a commission to the seller of their products, but are unable to obtain a representation of the travel agent. This new voucher system that allows them to encourage and reward travelers who prefer to manage their own arrangements directly with operators to offer a price that reflects the cost of reduced commission and therefore savings for the traveler-it-yourself.

TopTravelVouchers sold in three price levels between economies of each: the currency of $ 30, $ 50 or US $ 100 or its equivalent if purchased outside the United States .. Often you can buy multiple benefiting families or groups and at the time of this article, it was a good rate of $ 100USD with a value of € 1.500 (about $ 2,000USD) offered on a small cruise ship in Greece, which is also a small operator usually represented by system 'travel agency.

Travelers are given 100% money back guarantee if the coupons are not used in one year of issue, but perhaps it should be two years, the good are usually valid for two years. Even after the end of travel and travelers are dissatisfied with the quality, the cost of the bonds is repaid TopTravelSites and the problem has assumed the tour operator.

Obviously, this service will only work for TopTravelSites if it is compatible with the world of travel suppliers they need to expand their representation retaining only a small percentage of each sale must be followed by a large volume of sales of obligations, but this is a unique service that offers benefits to both travelers and smaller in the travel industry that use the logical use of the Internet for direct booking travel companies.