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Online travel agencies are one of the fastest growing industries in the present world. According to one survey, at present, at the rate of $7 Trillion every year and with its growth that is 23% faster than the global economy; online travel industry is becoming one of the greatest revenue generating industries. This statistics says that it is expected to reach $10 Trillion by the end of this decade. Not looking at global market, just an average American spends about $2800 every year on vacations. Some tourism reports that 10.9% of all consumers spending worldwide and more clearly, an average of $1.4 billion per day and so $59 million per hour! The figures themselves tell how important and ‘non-ignorable’ industry this is. There is a reason behind this hike in the travel industry especially the online ones. We all know that the world is moving towards the globalization and technologies are turning from mini to micro and micro to nano! Working hours are getting more and along with the salaries, responsibilities and workloads have been increased simultaneously. In this busy and hectic schedule, you definitely need break or else you are broken! Medical science agrees upon this and says that your brain and body needs rest after heavy workloads. People understand it and they certainly believe in getaways. Now when they plan for the trip, they need it to be successful and for that their accommodation, traveling mode and sight seeing places are to be arranged before they go. This is where these online travel agencies come in picture. When you want to go to some place, you would like to know about it. The queries come into your mind are; how do we go there? Where to stay? What will be the charge of hotels? What are the tourist places and how to visit there? These are few basic questions and you surely be having plenty of more than this. The complete solution is something called ‘online travel agency’. These agencies provide everything what you need; right from the traveling mode to reach the destination to accommodation, sight seeing, car rentals and to come back to your home. Arranging your tour package online is very easy task and needs few clicks of your mouse that can gather all the information with pictures of your desired place for outing. Internet is fastest growing industry and there is no second thought about it. A rough estimate states that every third second, a new person goes online and consumers spent over $72 Billion on travel websites (2006 statistics) as compare to $63 Billion in 2005. Everything is on internet and that makes this niche as world’s most famous e-commerce market. Online travel agency is the unique combination of upcoming market i.e. traveling and internet marketing that has already reached the crest. No doubt, if you are online travel agent, you earn tons of money and get various discounts offered by hotels and resorts to make you their ‘own’ customer!