Fenton by training a computer programmer spent several years developing his travel Web site.
Our initial searches on a few travel Web sites didn't turn up any nonstop flights between the two cities, but we did find multi-stop tickets.
These bacteria-infested attractions have topped an unusual list compiled by editors at TripAdvisor.com, a travel advice Web site.
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Profits may be less theoretical for the firm that makes Preview Travel's Web site work.
You can meet the celestial bodies under consideration for planet status if you travel to our Web site npr.org.
In a shrinking world where air travel and the Web have made real and virtual nomads of us, major environmental and health problems have also become globe-trotters.
Entrance to the Building is through a lobby which leads to the Web Travel Agency, a Reading Room and to an elevator to reach the different floors.
Preview Travel has a pretty cool Web site, mimicking a skilled travel agent right down to anticipating--based on where you have traveled in the past--the type of trip you are booking.
"If you go to a professional, they can tell you what the traditional prices are ... and give you some good old-fashioned advice, " said Ruthanne Terrero, a vice president in charge of content at The Travel Group, which puts out publications and Web sites for travel professionals.
Once on the ground, I found two big changes in how the web has impacted travel.
The idea is to introduce air travel on demand, using Web-based software to route small aircraft as needed.
Personalization is the future of the Web, and travel booking sites have been adding such features in fits and starts.
Travelocity, the largest Web-based travel agent, has 19 million registered users and processed 1.8 million transactions in the first quarter of this year.
But the Web can benefit travel agencies that use it as an informational tool to search for special deals and other services faster, O'Neill said.
By using social tools and lightweight Web apps, travel companies have moved toward a model that lets consumers experience their trips before setting foot in a plane and use discovery rather than search to make their trip, their trip, not a trip.
They travel millions of miles over the web into local culture, breaking down walls, breaking down borders, smashing open doors.
Next, make a list of the phone numbers and Web addresses for your travel agent, airline, hotel, rental car company, and any other travel related contacts.
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Other Web 2.0 travel companies aim to offer concierge-like services.
These underground travel agents use the World Wide Web to act as middlemen between deathly ill patients in wealthy countries and hospitals in developing countries where ethical scruples about organ sources don't rise to Western levels.
Travelocity, the Web's biggest online travel site with 27 million members, wanted to take advantage of the promotion.
But if the big travel organizations are moving slowly, little Web 2.0 start-ups are zipping in to fill the gap.
Fotopedia Magazine is a stream of original travel articles and photos updated daily in a Web browser -- not an app -- yet the content is presented in a way that is best appreciated on the iPad's landscape orientation.
Their goal: to make the travel booking market have the beauty of the social web.
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Self-service on the Web doesn't bode well for traditional travel agents.
New search engines could give web surfers the ability to simply enter their travel itinerary and let the search engine get the best prices directly from suppliers.
Under the proposed air travel rule, airlines would be required to make their Web sites accessible over a two-year period, and ensure that their ticket agents do the same.
Whiplash has created a Web site to let the public book a group travel package, bypassing the travel agent.
The British Foreign Office also announced it is advising British nationals to avoid non-essential travel to Iran, according to a statement posted on its Web site.
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The EU list is supposed to be brought to the attention of customers by travel agents, both at ticket sales offices and on their Web sites, EU officials said.
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Although modems and normal telephone lines will never deliver watchable movies, the Web has proved that the pictures and text that travel over telephone connections are compelling in their own way.
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