travel tips for europe | YTravelTips https://ytraveltips.com The shocking truth is revealed. Fri, 05 May 2017 06:24:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 226387345 Online Travel Agents vs. High Street Travel Agents https://ytraveltips.com/online-travel-agents-vs-high-street-travel-agents/ https://ytraveltips.com/online-travel-agents-vs-high-street-travel-agents/#respond Mon, 10 Apr 2017 16:15:28 +0000 https://ytraveltips.com/?p=42 Once upon a time, when people wanted to book a holiday they went to see the travel agent. Usually found on a high street with heavy pedestrian traffic, the travel agent was the start of vacation dreams for several decades – until a new, flashier kid arrived on the block. With the advent of the internet age, life for travel agents and holidaymakers changed forever. Now, we can go online and find the best deals to suit…

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]]> https://ytraveltips.com/online-travel-agents-vs-high-street-travel-agents/feed/ 0 42 Survive The Travel Agent Hard-Sell https://ytraveltips.com/survive-the-travel-agent-hard-sell/ https://ytraveltips.com/survive-the-travel-agent-hard-sell/#respond Mon, 10 Apr 2017 16:15:09 +0000 https://ytraveltips.com/?p=40 Estate agents have a worldwide reputation for exaggerating the good points of something they are trying to sell and downplaying the bad – but they’re not alone. This ‘selective editing’ tactic is used by any professional company trying to sell something; the trick is to learn to see through their statements and find the truth. When it comes to travel agents, it’s all the more difficult to trust them. For a start, unlike when you’re with a…

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]]> https://ytraveltips.com/survive-the-travel-agent-hard-sell/feed/ 0 40 The Ever-Increasing Popularity of Air Travel https://ytraveltips.com/the-ever-increasing-popularity-of-air-travel/ https://ytraveltips.com/the-ever-increasing-popularity-of-air-travel/#respond Tue, 10 Jan 2017 16:16:08 +0000 https://ytraveltips.com/?p=46 Ever since the determinedly brave Wright Brothers made the first unassisted flight aboard their plane Kitty Hawk, man has been taking to the sky (and beyond) so as to explore the world. Air travel is fastly becoming the biggest of all the transportation industries, allowing people to shrink the world and go from one hemisphere to another in a matter of hours. Air travel is one of the most convenient ways to move from place to place.…

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]]> https://ytraveltips.com/the-ever-increasing-popularity-of-air-travel/feed/ 0 46 The Downside of Travel Guides https://ytraveltips.com/the-downside-of-travel-guides/ https://ytraveltips.com/the-downside-of-travel-guides/#respond Tue, 10 Jan 2017 16:15:47 +0000 https://ytraveltips.com/?p=44 It’s safe to say that the vast majority of us book a holiday to a place where we ‘like the sound of’. Destinations tend to be spread by word of mouth, when other people enjoy their vacation and tell their friends – or the entire internet. Yet oddly, when we’ve booked this people-recommended holiday, many of us then go and by a travel guide from a book retailer. This might not seem that odd, but in reality…

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