Nowadays, moving a business from offline to online becomes a sort of good-style marketing among large and medium companies. If a company does not have at least a promo-website, that is considered to be either as oldie ignorance or as a scoped marketing. Indeed, the Internet sales are in the speedy reincarnation after the painful 2002 dotcom-crash. No doubt, doing business online becomes profitable and less-costly than selling stuff from offline shops or stocks.

Lets look what consequences this trend brings to the touristic sectors. The trend kicks first of all the so called tour operators, that organize and provide a complete tour packages including tickets, accommodation and excursions. In the old (no-Internet) days, that was a great offer for a traveler. Get one tour package that includes everything, without any calls and organization issues â?? that was great and easy. Therefore, we can see so many tour operators jumping from nowhere around us last decades.

However, with introduction of the internet-order-opportunities the tour operators are in danger. There are number of factors that lead a tourist to use the online-services instead of going to the tour operator office or website:

- Online booking services provide lower rates because they (a) have direct agreement with hotels, car rentals or airlines, (b) do not need to rent offline offices, and (c) they just have larger turnover.

- Normally, the international booking services (for instance for hotels – Booking, Hotels.com, Orange Smile Tours, HRS, Venere, HotelsDiscount) have much larger amount of hotels and provide extensive choice for their clients.

- A client can control his travel arrangement right from his home computer, without going to the operator office and signing the package.

- The online reservations can be easily cancelled sometimes even 12 hours before check-in.

These beneficial factors actually turn more and more people towards the online services. In order not to be forgotten and abandoned, some tour operators already started looking at the ways to bring their business to the online. Their mobility in this aspect might play an important role in their survival. Future will show how effective the tour operators can be in the online business. Anyway, our prognosis concludes that in several years we probably will not notice the standard tour-operator-offices at our streets anymore.

Mobile phone makers introduce new handsets in the market, integrated with innovative technologies and latest mobile software. This allows users to make use of their phones more efficiently and effectively. The market is flooded with numerous phones with customized specifications which makes it hard for the user to decide which one to go for.

Mobile phone manufacturers like Nokia, Samsung, HTC, LG, Blackberry, Sony Ericsson and many others are working towards developing phones that are technically sound and possess features that distinguish them above all the rests in the competitive environment of mobile phones.

The latest mobile phones are designed with configurations as per the user requirements like a businessman or a professional who travels to other countries and would like to get in touch with family, friend and colleagues through his phone. He would prefer a phone which should be compatible with the 2G and 3G networks, only then the phone would work in other countries. The phone must have a high speed Internet connection preferably a wireless one. It is better to work on the compact sized mobile than to switch on a rather bulkier laptop. The required phone must have other interesting features like good quality camera, TV-out, music and video player, video calling, geo-tagging and GPS navigator. These features may vary for different models.

Some of the latest mobile phones that have high-end features are HTC snap, Nokia N97, Sony Ericsson W705, LG GW 520, Apple iPhone 3GS, Blackberry Tour 9630 etc. All the phones are equipped with latest gears that help them enhance their performance.

Other users of mobile phones like students and home makers who might not be looking for a high-end super phone model but are more interested in other aspects like camera quality, Internet surfing, music player , games, video player, Bluetooth ,polyphonic ring tones etc. They might not be requiring features like advanced network connectivity and tools for office work or activities like sending creating or sending emails. To buy a phone which has specifications much more than the expectations might result in facing high cost and less usage, it is rather better to buy a phone with required specifications that are user specific. Mobile phone makers also consider these essential aspects and come up with their ingenious latest mobile phones that have configurations as per user requirements. Few of the medium budgeted phones available in the market are Nokia 5530 Xpress Music, Samsung M2510, Sony Ericsson W205, LG GD330 etc.

For a mobile phone to make use of all its functions, requires a better network service provider. There are number of mobile service providers who bring superb deals in mobile phones. There are lucrative gifts options which benefits the user even more. There are many comparison websites which show cheaper deals in the latest mobile phones as per one’s budget. A user can go through such websites to find his favorite handset at affordable price with suitable tariff. If a user is looking for a high-end handset he can make use of contract deals that offer smart phones with free gifts like play stations, LCD TVs or laptops. One is required to enter into an agreement to avail the free gifts. Users, who are not willing to get into agreement, can opt for other interesting plans like Pay as you go and sim free. These plans offer free gifts in the form of cash back, free minutes and free texts for a specific time period.

One must shop around before deciding upon getting a mobile phone plan.