Consumer Reports: Don't Trust Any Single Travel Search Engine

No one travel search engine is capable of delivering the lowest airline fare or the cheapest hotel rate, so consumers are advised to use multiple sites, Consumer Reports said Wednesday. The consumer watchdog's latest analysis of 11 of the most popular travel search engines found that no single site could be recommended as a one-stop destination for cheapest plane tickets, hotel room and other travel products.

None of the evaluated sites included all of the leading online travel agencies in their inventories, so many "Web-only rates" were not captured.

Read the original article by Antone Gonsalves here: InformationWeek | Online Travel | Consumer Reports: Don't Trust Any Single Travel Search Engine | December 21, 2005

Posted 12/24/05 by hotelguru | Filed under: E Commerce and E Business