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12 essential sites for the savvy travellerArticle By: Cynthia Ross Cravit
These websites predict travel fares, help you plan the best trip, find the best deals and even tell you which seat to select.
Beyond providing information on destinations and a convenient way to book, some travel websites are offering more innovative ways to help you plan the best trip or score the best deal. The sites offer all sorts of useful information such as free email alerts on changing fares, advice on which day to purchase your ticket and how to make the best seat selection. While some of these websites are geared for U.S.-based travellers, Canadians will no doubt find them useful as well. Farecompare.com Even if you can't book some of the flights if you're in Canada, you can monitor fares to and from Canadian airports. The website also provides information on fare trends, as well as advice for discounted first class airfare and cheap domestic and international airline tickets. Farecast.com Farecast.com is designed to help answer such a dilemma. Touted as something of a crystal ball for travellers, Farecast.com uses historical data and price trends to forecast if your fare will rise or fall in coming days or weeks. (Note: Forecasts are available only on flights to and from designated U.S. airports.) Here's how it works: After you enter your itinerary, the website tells you its prediction and whether to buy now or wait until later. It also displays a 90-day fare history for a trip and reveals how confident it is in its prediction. On its website, the company claims that 74.5 per cent of its predictions are accurate.
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