Although there are several sites on the Internet where you can find great travel deals and cheap flights, is not always easy to get a real bargain.

Some popular and widely used sites are: Expedia , Travelocity, Vacation Outlet and Priceline among thousands more, but before rushing to those site, please follow some of our recommendations.

One new site that is gaining a lot of popularity is Kayak. This only site worth special consideration, because Kayak actually is a search machine of search machines for travel. This means that this site searches in most of the sites listed above for the same information, giving the final result in a single search engine, instead of jumping from site to site.

Still, with all these technology involved, finding good deals is not straightforward, despite the wonderful usability and great technology behind those sites.

Besides if you or an acquaintance have found great deals in one site, don´t get confident and book always in the same site. Each site has its own specials for particular routes or dates. To do this, Kayak will do the job wonderfully as a starting point.

Believe it or not, you can find sometime unpublished deals in some major airline sites, therefore taking a look to the airline sites, which travel to your selected destination, it is a must. Besides, if you want to increase your travel-booking knowledge, there are several resources to help you get acquainted with some booking procedures which will save you hundreds of dollars each time you book.

There is a service called unclaimed tickets, which have a database of tickets and fares with the status of unclaimed and unsold. This kind of fares are usually reduced automatically by the plane companies in an effort to sell the last unsold spaces. This has certain logic if we conclude that a plane will fligth anyway, with or without full seated, so selling the last unsold seats can be done at a bargain price, with great profit too, therefore it is better for the company sell them than keepthem empty.

Another resource is the Travel Secrets Guide which is a step by step guide to learn how to purchase tickets at bargain prices. This guide does not includes only air fares, but also car and hotel discount rates. Additionally, this book will disclose you everything about Airfare consolidators which are one of the best kept secrets in the travel industry.