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Remember when you had to traipse down to your local travel agent to make flight and accommodation reservations? Well, those days have gone.
Travel agents are becoming redundant. Now you can search for the best deals online and make your own bookings for transport, hotels, hire cars and tours. You can even design your own package tours online.
Thomas Cook never dreamed it would come to this, but maybe he would have liked it. More people than ever before now travel the world, not least because the internet has made travel information so accessible.
People often ask whether making online reservations is secure. The resounding answer to that is yes. That is because everything is recorded electronically. As for using your credit card to pay for flights and accommodation in advance, you can have total peace of mind for one simple reason.
The majority of money spent by the IT industry in the past decade or so has been in the area of internet security. The boffins know that the future of ecommerce depends on the reliability of internet purchases using credit cards.
Literally billions have been poured into internet security. If it comes to the worst you can simply reverse your purchase, which is wonderful to know when you're booking accommodation on some obscure island in Croatia, or a hire car in Belize.