The $500 billion+ a year travel industry continues to evolve at a rapid pace. Emerging ripe with opportunity is the high-margin, leisure-based travel market, which is comprised of airfares, hotels, car rentals, excursions, and tours. Leisure travel agents and wholesale operators are now facing a critical need for flexible, cost-saving technology solutions that can vastly improve operating efficiencies, create global distribution channels and meet consumer preferences on-demand.

As the Internet evolved into a more efficient machine between 2001 and 2003, the industry term “dynamic packaging” emerged to describe the assembly of travel components online to be delivered for a single price. Between 2001 and 2003, leisure Web travel spending tripled, from $14.2 billion to $42.9 billion. This market is estimated to double from 2004 to exceed $100 billion by 2009. Approximately 29.4 million U.S. households booked travel online in 2004, and forecasts estimate that number will jump to 44.3 million U.S. households in 2009. This new environment bodes well for DLC’s business model. DLC is poised to transform traditional ‘brick and mortar' wholesale travel agencies into a highly efficient, cost-effective electronic channel that empowers travelers and agencies to create complex itineraries using a dynamic, real-time packaging and pricing model.