……虽然电子旅行计划工具尚未取代旅行社,但它正带给使用者更多的行动自由和更大量的信息。一年前,一本商务杂志曾经主持过一次实验,看看因特网技术是否能取代旅行社。其结论是:还不行,因为网上预订要比通过旅行社花费更多的时间。这样的说法吓跑了许多潜在的使用者,也造成电子旅行计划和预订启动缓慢。但随着过去一年中界面友好的用户工具的不断发展,局面已有改观。根据纽约一家市场研究机构(JUPITER COM-MUNICATIONS)的报告,诸如机票、酒店客房、汽车 ... While e-Travel planning tools have not replaced travel agencies, they are giving users more freedom of movement and greater amounts of information. A year ago, a business magazine had conducted an experiment to see if Internet technology could replace travel agencies. The conclusion is: No, because online booking takes more time than traveling through travel agencies. This argument scares away many potential users and also results in a slow start of e-travel plans and reservations. But things have changed with the continuous development of user-friendly user tools in the past year. According to a report from a New York based market research agency (JUPITER COM-MUNICATIONS), airlines, hotel rooms, cars