Travelling on your own

Isn’t it easy and handy, to be able to click so freely, booking flights, accommodation, restaurants and guides, by the mere wish of our thumb? Do we achieve to obtain the same results than through expert professionals of Tourism? Or even better? It might be cheaper in some cases, much worse in some others. How many times haven’t we been disappointed by a hotel, after great view of a “too idyllic” website, or by low-cost airlines, that charge you for using the toilette! It all seemed so convenient, didn’t it? Definitely for these service sellers who thus require much less staff, but are available 24 hours.
So the answer is no, we can’t say that we’re travelling better than before cyber-info appeared, we just manage to connect with certain things. Others, we find them on site or through the classical channels. Fair enough, there seems to be a quantitative improvement, not qualitative. But it is necessary to point out, that the world of travelling has, during the same period of the Net’s “birth” and “childhood” evolved very much indeed, definitely not only due to the information society. We cruise, we assist to congresses, we are on an incentive travel, we practice adventure sports while away, we follow our team on international tournaments or we attend a fair abroad. What a pleasant variety! On some cases, it has been through the Net that we were aware of them, but we didn’t book it through. No doubt that being on your own, far away from your hometown, becomes safer when you can rely on a email connection, but still many aspects of the fuzzy technology (GPS, mms, cell-phone calls) are too expensive on roaming, aren’t they? Ouch when you get the bill…
So we certainly dispose of many more assets now than before cyber-booking, but can we make it to cover all options we wish/need, and are we happy with the final result when we fly back? Tourism branch provides the necessary means to fulfill any expectation for groups or individuals, and computers just provide data flow… Let the cobbler stick to his last.