Sunday, June 19, 2011

Gift Vouchers For Holidays: Give and You will Get Back

By Sebastian Currie


A gift is the opportunity you have to make a difference in the life of someone you love and care about. Finding the right gift for friends, good friends, close relatives or your loved one has become just too difficult: sometimes you are lucky enough to know just what they are expecting and manage to "get off the hook" quite easily and fast, but other times you are left alone guessing at what the ideal gift that will make a difference is. The Internet has transformed us into very sophisticated and hard-to-satisfy consumers.

We As Consumers Have Become Very sophisticated

Finding the right gift at the right price by comparing similar products has become very challenging according to a recent study performed on a group of younger consumers. The results of the study show how an ever increasing variety of products and services tends to distract and confuse young consumers making it harder to identify the ideal present.

With an economy still stagnant and a highly volatile and extremely dynamic global market place, spending habits have changed, and the use of the Internet has increased our expectations and raised the bar making it more difficult to match and exceed consumer demand.

Gift Vouchers For Hotels Are the Ideal Present

Gift Vouchers for Holidays are a simple yet practical choice indicated not only for a quick getaway but also for an overseas holiday, a helping hand for those getting married.

Surprise her with a sudden and very romantic getaway, a romantic week end for just the two of you, enjoy her company like you haven't in years.

Places and Cultures and the Essence of Modern Travel

Travels used to be expensive, a luxury few well off families could afford. A holiday was about seeing places you had only read of in books for research projects at school.

The changes in lifestyle in just under 15 years thanks to the Internet were unthinkable in the early 90s when fax was the fastest (but not cheapest) way to communicate, when letter writing made distance a bit shorter and international phone calls were simply unaffordable for most of us: today Moscow or Singapore are at the equal distance of just one click of a mouse and all the information we can handle is online awaiting to be consumed by hundreds of millions of people curious to see places they have heard of but never seen before and would like to plan their next holiday there.

The sophisticated consumer is also a sophisticated traveler: today you can travel on a very tight budget and see distant places - what people seek more and more is the "experience" of a culture and a people: with less and less free time quality, not quantity, is the key factor and drives the decision making process to decide where to go and what to do on holidays. This is the case for most travelers all with different needs and expectations, all seeking a personal touch: Both newly weds on their honeymoon or couples celebrating years of togetherness, It's not how long you stay somewhere but how intense and what you experience that matters today.

Accommodation Gift Vouchers will Make Travels More Interesting

A Travel Gift Voucher is the opportunity to visit places during a holiday: a sort of holiday within your holiday. Take for example a trip to Italy - with so many different places to see and visit it is only natural to choose a region to explore and visit.

With hotel gift certificates and accommodation vouchers you give friends and family the opportunity to see different places not foreseen on their original travel plan.

How Do Gift Vouchers For Holidays Work?

In many cases purchasing hotel gift vouchers can be a bit tricky. In fact only a handful of multinational hotel chains allow users to purchase directly online and in real time - the majority of small hotels are not equipped with the technology to perform such a transaction. Traditional online hotel booking engines do not allow transactions unless all parameters have been correctly added (number of people, number of rooms date of arrival and departure). This does not mean that hotel gift certificates are not available or are not on sale. If you have set your heart on a specific hotel and would like to give yourself and your loved one a romantic week end, it's best to write an Email and ask for a gift voucher, better still call and ask for help - this is particularly true in Italy where many charming very small hotels do not have a booking engine and do things manually. GIve them a call and your be pleasantly surprised by their reply.

Stand Out From the Crowd, Give a Hotel Gift Voucher

If you're seeking a unique gift for someone special, hotel gift certificates are the kind of present that will make you stand out from the rest. Giving a hotel gift voucher to a friend as a wedding gift or to your parents for their anniversary will make you stand out from the crowd - a different way to show how much you care: something they cannot ware or stack away in a box, something they will always carry in their hearts




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