IAC's travel side and boss of Expedia, the biggest internet travel agent, thinks online travel bookings in America could quickly move from 20% of the market to more than half.
In seconds, its Internet-browser-based agent negotiates deals that match your calendar (no morning flights, the software sees an early meeting that day in your Outlook calendar) and your likes (outdoor pool, bandwidth, that cool restaurant you booked before).
And it was thanks largely to the information and data exchanged via Internet that they were able to isolate the agent causing SARS in record time.
It was around the time of those early purchases that the author, now playing the part of a deranged millionaire across various internet venues, was employed as a literary agent, utilizing company resources to discover that he was living in the past.
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No internet service provider has yet come forward to act as an agent.
Now this is a San Francisco-based tech loving guy who tried every trick the internet offered, and then called his American Express Platinum Card travel agent, and none of it got the fare down one cent.
Just as people got used to booking their own flights, rather than using a travel agent, he thinks more and more consumers will use the Internet to buy and sell homes, rather than a real estate broker -- especially if it saves them commission money.
If you were a bank teller or a phone operator or a travel agent, you saw many in your profession replaced by ATMs and the Internet.
Whereas Mr Soskin is convinced that the internet has persuaded people to travel more often, he also thinks the death of the traditional high-street travel agent has been greatly overstated.
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