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Facts and Trends . . .

Fact: The Travel Industry is outpacing the Global Economy by 23% annually and is expected to reach 14 Trillion dollars by the end the decade.

* 2001 - 10 Million Travelers Booked Online * 2004 - Just 3 Years Later, it was Nearly 100 Million * 2006 - Online Travel Bookings Exceed 85 BILLION!!!!! * 70% of all Travel is Now Booked Online

Trend: Baby-boomers (born 1945-1965), around one billion worldwide, are now reaching their retirement age, which occurs at a rate of one retiring every eight seconds. This equates to 10,000 retiring per day for the next 15 years. What do most of them want to do with their time...Travel, of course.

Trend: Every three seconds a new person goes on-line. Barely a third of the world's population is online at this date and time. Online shopping itself has shifted in the last five years from mainly small purchases to buying cars, homes, and everything in between. Booking Travel online continues to increase with 80 million Americans using the internet to book travel each year. The internet is and will continue to be the future.

Trend: Statistics show that small and home based businesses are the fastest growing segments in the US Economy. When surveyed, 96% of people between the age of 25 and 44 said they wanted to have their own business but just didn't know how to get started. With all the corporate downsizing today, no real job security, it's no wondering many people are taking their financial futures into their own hands.