Want to know how consumers search for Travel - well NY times has a few tips

Interesting piece here from the New York Times' "Frugal Traveler" called "Research: The Travller's Best Friend". Is an article where the Frugal Traveler gives their tips and tricks to NY Times readers on which sites to use to research, book and manage a trip. There will be no surprises for you the experienced online travel user/abuser but it does provider some useful insight into the advice the the mainstream media is giving the online consumer on where to look and book.

No blogs were mentioned. Sites getting a mention include:

• Google;
• Luxe Series of guide books;
• Kayak
• SeatGuru;
• Dealbase;
• TripAdvisor (but not in a good way);
• Craigslist;
• TripIt;
• Facebook;
• Couchsurfing;
• Oanda; and
• Flight 001 travel store

Also some old school recommendations to check out books.

Thanks for Madame BOOT for sending through the link.

Thanks to Kristina B for the fantastic image