Case Assignment:
Use the Internet to plan a trip to a location outside the United States. Use the services of an online travel site such as Orbitz.com, Travelocity.com,
Kayak.com, or Expedia.com. (Search “online travel sites” for additional options.) Compare two services and discuss your findings:
Find the lowest airfare.
Examine a few hotels by class.
Get suggestions of what to see.
Find out about local currency, and convert $1,500 to that currency with an online currency converter.
Compile travel tips.
Prepare a report comparing how each site performed in terms of its ease of use, helpfulness, and best overall deal.
Assignment Expectations
Produce a 3-page paper analyzing and comparing the two online travel sites. Use of Excel and tables is highly recommended along with a description of
your analysis. The final report should include two report findings combined in one Word doc.
Analysis comparing the travel sites. For this section, you will include the following.
You should compile the various Excel documents, if any, and use the copy/paste command from Excel into a Word document
How does your research and analysis compare to another team member in general (same websites, prices?) **Reference of a team member’s research is
below.
Why you feel that this research, analysis, and comparison is optimum to be included as a team paper.
(Reference) Team member’s post in discussion thread for assignment:
I choose to use expedia.com to figure out everything, I know my results will be some what cheaper since I fly a lot and have a reward card and points built
up which may help to save more on my end. When all that is factored in the prices for a hotel for the two weeks would be ranging from $2100-$3500 being
the max. I choose the hotel for $2,133 for the two weeks because it was the cheapest of them all the hotel name is Park Inn by Radisson Berlin. Remember
in the beginning where I said I fly a lot I have enough points to fly from San Francisco to Berlin for free but since this is for a project I wanted to have
number the average price on my time line was $596 for departures United Air lines and $26 return flight from Berlin Germany Swiss international Air lines
being the cheapest return flight. This would bring the grand total for the room and the flight with taxes to $3200. The money I honestly would not exchange
I would just use my card and the bank deal with the converting on their end to make the trip less work on myself but for the project purposes $1500
American money equals $1220.06 Euros in berlin Germany which would make the grand total for the entire trip $4756 estimation. My results I know are
cheaper than yours Aaron because a lot of things come to play with me also being military; the express check line is free and we also get 6 free bags to
check in. I see that you were looking at first class tickets which also played a huge difference in price I just focus on getting to and from the location not
really on comfort, our transfer/convert rate was the same as of 02/23/2018 from US dollar to Euros. Although you used Travelocity and I used expedia they
are one of the same people/ organization with a different name.
Note: For students who deliver the assignment late and outside the team discussion, please read the conversation threads and prepare your paper based on
those conclusions.