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When Did Travel Become a Commodity?

When Did Travel Become a Commodity?

When did it stop being an experience and more of a package, a deal, a search result?

Travel has turned into an obsession for the cheapest airfare, cheapest hotel room and pretty much the lowest, cheapest  cost for anything and every thing related to travel.

Wasn't so long ago that airlines, the most commodified of the travel experience were sufficiently different from each other that you could them apart.


There were differences in food served, space between rows
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http://www.examiner.com/destinations-travel-in-national/take-continental-airlines-from-newark-to-hong-kong

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No matter how you figure it, it is a long flight from the East Coast of the United States to Hong Kong, the major gateway to Asia.  How long?  About 16 hours, longer if there are delays but most flights are non-stop to Hong Kong.  From Hong Kong there are flights to all the major Asian cities. So if you are set for a long flight and can’t afford Business First fly Continental.  Of the Ameri

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