... that enables customers to book their vacation without the need of separate suppliers (like transport and accommodation vendors), and is in turn, more hassle-free, both for the consumer and the tour operator (the company who organise the holiday and recommends it to a travel agent who will decide to sell it depending on whether they think it will be profitable or not). Package holidays generally consist of transport and accommodation included, though other services may be provided like a rental car (e.g. from Hertz or Avis), or discounts on certain 'adventurous' activities (like skiing, ab-sailing or even sky-diving). An example would be Thomson Holidays (a major tour operator in the U.K.), striking a deal with an overseas hotel resort and combining it with one of their outbound flights to create a holiday (say in the Alps), which would then be partly sold on to a travel agent (like Going Places) to ...

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