Henry Harteveldt, Forrester's online travel analyst, points out that even wealthy long-haul travellers are just as tantalised by low prices and many use the internet to research and plan their journeys, even though they may end up booking offline.

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Mathematically, you can end up in the same place, but the journeys are very different.

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The aim is to make journeys as seamless as possible and even join rail to the end of long-haul flights.

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