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Dynamic. Packaging.Applications
Currently, with most tourism information systems, travelers need to visit multiple
independent Web sites to plan their trip, register their personal information multiple
times, spend hours or days waiting for response or confirmation, and make multiple
payments by credit card. Consumers are discouraged by the lack of functionalities.
Dynamic packaging applications are emerging in response to these limitations and
have caught the attention of major worldwide online travel agencies.
The.Dynamic.Packaging.Model
A dynamic packaging application allows consumers or travel agents to customize
trips by bundling trip components. Customers can specify a set of preferences for a
vacation, for example, a 5-day stay on Madeira Island, then the dynamic packaging
application dynamically accesses and queries a set of tourism information sources
to find products such as air fairs, hotel rates, car rental companies, and leisure
activity suppliers in real time.
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