Odds are that when a user clicks on CountryWatch.com to investigate Oman, there's an airline ticket and a hotel reservation in it for somebody.

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That means there are many more things that can be done with Web sites, beyond the more simpler things now where you can click to buy a book or click to make a hotel reservation -- many, many more things will be done when you always have the Web with you.

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You simply enter the time and place of the trip, maybe adding extras like whether you need a hotel, a rental car or a dinner reservation.

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Last year saw the emergence of fake messages from a variety of airlines, hotel reservation services and coupon services like those fake Groupon emails.

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We cancelled and made another reservation at a hotel further into the state, in Harrisburg, where we were able to get out of the cold and I could get caught up on work.

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Instead of screen scraping the hotel reservation system and calling it a mobile app, a system of engagement presented on a smartphone will know that a guest has entered the lobby for the first time and probably wants to check in.

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Having a franchise that charges 8% of your revenue in royalties and fees, whose reservation system refers to your hotel no more than 8% of your total rooms rented, is like having 14.7 pounds of air pressure in your tire.

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When personal data is easily swapped and shared on the network, a couple of keystrokes gets you, say, a United reservation, frequent-flier number included, plus the kind of rental car you like and your hotel reservation--even listings of the movies or restaurants that have opened since your last visit.

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