In this research proposal one will be analysing and researching how the internet has impacted high street travel agents and if there will be a need for them in the future. One will be also completing a comprehensive and well-structured literature review which is drawn from a variety of different sources. The proposal will go on to discuss, recommend and justify the research question. One’s aim is to analyse how the internet has affected travel agents. One has chosen the topic because one thought that it would be an interesting topic to do because there is lots of information surrounding this topic and also because it is a current issue and one would like to analyze and research this topic to discover how it’s actually affected travel agents and & if it will one day eliminate travel agents as a whole and overall one just thinks it will be a very interesting topic to discuss & to research. One’s objectives are to find out why its affected travel agents, to find out if people prefer the use of the internet to going into an actual travel agent, to find out if one day the internet will actually eliminate the use of travel agents or if there is going to be a mixture of the two. Due to the advances in technology it means that now anyone can book their holidays from the comfort of their own home, but is this necessarily a good thing? Should people continue to book online or should they stick to the good old fashioned way and do it via travel agencies? One shall be analyzing this also in the literature review. There are many different arguments as to if it will continue to grow if there will be a mixture & there has been a lot of research towards this particular topic.
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In this section one will now go on to analyze the question which internet travel agents vs travel agents – is there still a need for travel agents & will there be in the future? Over the years the internet has been developed majorly and anything is now possible