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Travel booked on the Internet is one of the fastest-growing segments of Web business.
A couple of weeks ago, I would have argued vigorously that it is. If you're lucky, and flexible on your destination and travel dates, you can find some astounding deals. Still, travel is a popular topic on the Net, with more than 1,000 commercial Web sites devoted to the subject. More than 52.2 million people used the Internet for travel planning in 1999, an increase of 54 percent from the previous year, according to a survey by the Travel Industry Association of America. The same report said that 16.5 million people had actually booked travel online in 1999, an increase of 146 percent from 1998.