People all over the world travel each year in order to relax and enjoy a new travel experience. With the recent economic downturn, however, many have reduced their choice of travel to cut costs.
So what does this mean to travel agents and providers? Well, price comparison websites are among the winners in this situation, having gained immensely on popularity. Comparison websites monitor the web in order to provide the best travel deals (http://www.free-
However, only restricting your activities to extremely cheap tourist deals does not sustain economic development in the long term, and thus no industry should base its entire strategy on it. Cruise Line holiday providers such as Royal Caribbean have realised this issue, and thus a number of new, gigantic cruise ships are being planned, built and released to the sea.
One of those has become the world's largest cruise ship, and has sparked a wave of excitement across cruise forums. The Oasis of the Seas provides features such as 7 distinct neighbourhoods on board for passengers to explore. This includes 24 restaurants, an Amphi-Theater called Aqua Theatre and an on-board Central Park (http://www.free-
Not only are travel agents providing cheap offers now, and a new fleet of cruise ships is being built, but travel agents, holiday providers and travel forums are trying to boost their popularity further through social media (http://www.free-



