Travel and tourism now comprise the largest area for e-commerce, in terms of dollars spent, according to recent reports. If you are a traveller surfing the net you are now a prime target for the purveyors of secret internet snooping. If you are running a travel agency and have many machines surfing the net, basic business-protection principles would indicate that you need to become educated about the internet security issues.

Arawak Net's "Internet Privacy Watch" now has a growing suite of articles you can use to help you to arm yourself better in the effort to protect your privacy and your net-based business. Titles of existing articles in the Privacy Watch are: "The war over internet privacy", "Javascripts more dangerous than cookies", "USA-Europe Safe Harbor Agreement Gives Citizen Groups New Leverage", and "ChildGuardIt -- New Help With Children's Internet Privacy" (The last article has much to interest small-business people exposed to internet snooping, and is not just for parents with children.) You will find the Privacy Watch at http://www.arawak.net, which sends no cookies to your computer, does not send Javascripts to be executed on your computer, and does not sell your data to anyone (not even in the so-called "aggregated form").

-- Leroy (lstone@magma.caq), June 24, 2000

Answers

Billions of dollars are now spend on reaching the pottential visitors to a website that is burning millions a month in the process of designing customer management systems that can only operate by using sophisticated profiles.

1. If I tell my agent what I need, would I still have to fill out all this time consuming forms that seem to be needed to make reservation?

2. What is the change of success of "back to basics" sollution like this, provide the agent is fully familiar with all the information I can gather on-line?

thnaks Ben

-- Ben (ben@travelcompass.net), June 24, 2000.