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Did you ever hear an old-timer talk about what it was
like in the Dark Ages to book cheap
hotels? We had to pick up the telephone and actually call long-distance
(forget toll-free) to every hotel in a city one at a time. That's
after we went to the library to look up the numbers in their tattered
phone books. Forget seeing a list of all the hotels
in New York with a chart of room availability and discount prices.
Heck, forget about the discount prices! There was maybe one price
for good business customers and another for everyone who wandered
in off the street. Before computers, no one knew about room availability
except the desk clerk thumbing through the card file.
If we wanted cheap hotels
in London, we had to go to a travel agent. You youngsters have
no idea how much fun that was. Now you can barely find a travel agent
except for those who specialize in corporate clients, but twenty or
thirty years ago, they were everywhere. When travel agents first got
computers that networked to airlines and a few hotel chains, they
protected that information like it was the combination to Fort Knox
. Simply put, travel agents were intimidating back then, and they
only offered a limited number of hotels and packages that made them
the most money. To rent a car, it was another round of phone calls
to separate offices in each city.
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