Travel brochures dying out

The brochure for travel may dying our within the next decade, according to the latest trends in travel sales. Major tour operators are planning Internet websites, with videos of destinations, to eventually replace the now standard printed brochures, which have become relatively expensive to publish.

Parallel to this the Travel Channel<.> (in the United Kingdom) has been most successful, operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

One prediction in the United Kingdom is that ten percent of holiday packages will be booked electronically next year. This would represent an estimated one million packages.

At a recent travel conference held in Las Vegas it was opined that prices printed in brochures are not valid for very long because of changing trends of bookings. It was also revealed that some nine out of ten brochures printed do not result in any sales.

Further, it was noted at the conference, on television of computer screens prices can be altered on daily basis.

Theodore Koumelis

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