In the past, to book your holiday involved, visit your local travel agent and carrying home tonnes of travel brochures, browsing page after page of exotic locations with sunny pool photos tempting you to book the holiday of your dreams in those glossy pages.

Since the advent of the Internet, travel consumers now have the opportunity to book their holiday online with many travel websites are springing up all over the world online.

Finding a suitable package holiday has been very simple and increasingly inexpensive in terms of costs, and virtually thousands of different types of holiday can be accessed by clicking on a mouse to destinations worldwide.

All major tour operators now have online booking facilities with even smaller lesser-known travel companies now beginning to include them to this facility. Even companies that offer niche holiday services have their own online booking facilities, such as flight networks, accommodation, car trips, airport transfers and travel insurance just to name a few. Under such access to various travel services, offers holiday consumers to create their very own DIY style holiday where they can pick and choose what they want with their own holiday without having to rely on the sometimes rigid holiday offer packages of the various tour operators.

There are also travel price comparison sites that offer the convenience of comparing prices on airline tickets, lodging, vehicle rental, airport transfers, holiday travel, etc. From all the major travel companies with up to the minute prices show discounts, so holiday consumers can haggle package tours. The flexibility and choice for booking travel packages online, has in recent years has resulted in more and more travel consumers are increasingly comfortable with booking their holidays through travel companies online, knowing they will get a great offer on a bargain holiday.

With the ease and security of the secure online booking and travel package and the different options offered by various travel agencies, this trend of consumers booking travel packages online in years to grow annually.