Even if this article is directly focused to you, the one who loves to travel and find the best deals when going away, a little understanding of how the industry of travel certificates works will be very important to have a clear idea on why you really can get free travel certificates and why companies are willing to give them to you in some cases.

First of all, let's put all this in context, as the chain of intermediary steps is long. The first we've got up on the chain are hotels and airlines, to generalize. We also could find some cruise companies, and also going down to local providers of activities, etc. This guys are the ones who control the price of the places they have available and they know how many places at a determined period of time are expected to be empty.

As soon as they have this statistics, they look for the way to fill them, and one of this ways is to create travel certificates that users will be able to redeem. Hotels win nearly nothing with this, but they expose you to all the services where you can spend money in, and of course, to the meals that you may decide to have in the hotel. In any case, the really strong point is that they expect you to come back on another occasion or tell your friends about how good their hotel is. It is better this than leave rooms empty.

Now that you understand why they do this, let's go to the next step. How this certificates reach you? Well, hotels normally work together with some companies that create the travel certificates themselves and distribute them. This companies get money from the redemption fees you will be required to pay when redeeming any certificate. If no redemption fees appear, you are probably looking at a fraud.

This companies are not the direct distributors to consumer, and their mission is simply to create the certificates that the hotel or airline requires and distribute them to companies that will offer them as travel incentives to consumers or employees. How this is done? Well, many of the travel certificates are offered in bulk for a relatively low cost, so companies can purchase them and then offer them to customers for a relatively small investment.

But the real deal, and the one you and companies will benefit from, is another kind of distributors that allow companies to distribute unlimited travel certificates as far as they pay a monthly fee. And your question is: where is the catch? Well, the real point is that for every certificate that you redeem, the main part of the redemption fee will go for the distributor, but then a smaller part will go as commission to the company that gave you the certificate.

This situation makes that distributing travel certificates, far from being a way in which companies spend some extra money in you, is a way they can use in order to win more money and at same time giving you a prize and making you happy. Companies that have suppliers that work in this way are willing to deliver their travel certificates. Is one of this very few cases in which everybody wins. The hotel or airline has full occupancy, the distributor wins from redemption fees and from monthly fees that makes companies pay. Companies, if they manage to give away enough travel certificates per month to compensate the monthly fees (about 20 persons normally works), they also win money, and you, as a tourist, benefit from free travel certificates to your dream locations.

A final question is: are this certificates always given away thanking you for a purchase? Do they always require you to first spend money? Mainly, but not always, and there are good places that simply for registering for free you can get free travel certificates as a way to thank you. You win a travel certificate, they get money by offering it to you. Doesn't it sound like a fair proposal?

I have always loved to kill myths, and today is not a different day. Let's go and ask Google for "best travel opportunities". Happily, you find some pages there that speak about best travel opportunities and you are happy because you are convinced that you have really found the best travel opportunities. Great Google! He always finds it! Seriously, I'm not afraid of disappointing people, and Google is far from great. And the same happens with all other search engines in the world that have developed in a similar way.

Focusing on the travel industry, even if you have the best travel opportunities, Google will never know unless you are lucky and you follow thousands of rules you need in order to rank high in search engines. And what if I don't care if people link to me or not? Do I have the best travel deals or not? And what if I don't want to update my blog every day? Does it make my deals less interesting? And what if I simply don't want to create a 400 pages website? Are the travel deals I have in one page less important because they are not spread within 400 pages?

Further from an article directed to webmasters, this is for you, the normal tourists. Internet has a big, very big problem, and only the ones that spend a lot of time looking at it from the back door and the ones that are lucky and have received good guidance and expertise are able to find the real travel opportunities. You normally book your hotels and flights using one of the most popular search engines or the airline or hotel reservation pages. Good, all them promise their prices are the best, don't they? It seems everybody has the best prices, the best quality, and the best return on investment. Sure, everyone's great!

Let's get back to reality. For doing such a simple thing as knowing where to get travel certificates for free you will be saving up to a 93.7% in most of your travel related activities. From my point of view, that could be one of the best travel opportunities you have ever seen, but Google won't tell you. Google just likes webmasters that follow the rules.

Did you know you could get 7 nights at 4 star hotels with a final discount including taxes and redemption fees (and everything you can think of) of 86%? Did you know you could spend this 7 days in apartments in more than 600 locations? Did you know that some of this travel certificates have a combination of airfare tickets plus 3 nights hotel where you are saving a real 89% What about 4 days in Mexico? Did you know you could be saving 93.7% with some certificates there? 5 star hotels, you say? Of course, there exists also another travel certificate where you'll be saving around an 85% that allows you to stay 7 nights for up to 4 persons in one of those 5 star quality resorts. Aren't these some of the best travel opportunities you have ever heard of? Have you ever heard of them before?

Of course you haven't. But it's not your fault. Google doesn't tell you, and you rely in Google. And why you rely in Google? Because people doesn't tell you the truth, and that's probably the worst damage that travel industry is having nowadays.

Even more, as you are used to receive so many false statements, probably when reading this great discounts I mentioned before you are thinking: "This has to be a fraud". And I can promise it isn't because I have used those travel certificates more than once by myself, but still people seems to be closed in their world and do not accept it when they see real opportunities.

You, as a tourist, are absolutely tired of being told you will save that much and in the end this does not get accomplished. You are tired of false statements telling you about the best travel opportunities and tired of extra costs, and in the end you just let search engines decide for you.

That's the biggest mistake you can ever do! Probably few of them, but there is still people out there that try to tell you the truth. And normally this ones are the ones that have all those incredible bargains that nobody else will tell you about. You won't find them doing a Google search, but what they offer is thousands of times better than the ones you find on first page. Furthermore, customer service will be always guided by the desire to help, and not to just win money.