To Find or Not to Find...but allow me to at least to add two parts. One is that this ztour.com ONLY accept listing for companies located in actual destination. In other words, a tour operator in US will not be listed under Egypt (even if the company is a tour operator with main operation in Egypt) but only under US. A fact Mr. Heinz Ziegenhorn explains is because "the idea behind ztour.com is that, in the end, all travel is local." What can I but say "bravo"! I will not even mention that I said something like this in my article The Death of a Travel Agent - predicting that death tolls would first of all be found among outbound agents. This policy of ztour.com could seem like a minor point, for me it's a major fact that prove to me that we have with travel professionals to do and not just another newly born "webmaster" who want to travel the online wave of the travel industry! Maybe ztour.com don't let you create any design winnig home page - as you could have done with NetObjects Fusion's "HTML Generator" (which I will come strongly back to later) - still I get "elevated". I will explain why: My true friend Brian Hughes with Freeware, normally get elevated when he find a software developer expressing something important. Not at least when it present a good reason why the program should be free. Maybe friendship also let you share qualities as this? I don't know, but fact is anyway that I can not say other than that I seem to have learned from Brian, as I get "elevated" when I find Mr. Heinz Ziegenhorn writing the following in his mail to me: "- The idea of giving tourism professionals a free homepage is that many people are not familiar with HTML scripts or computer stuff in general. In order to create a homepage, they would need external help for (perhaps) a lot of money - a fact which would prevent many smaller and not so prosperous companies from getting their presentation on the internet. With ztour.com they can create and edit their homepage without any costs or external help whatsoever. This is the true meaning of democracy, freedom and equal opportunity." It is good that I don't have to be a genius to understand that ztour.com is... And me who intended to write about TOT (*Time & Organizing Tools*) this time, I have to blame it on ztour and
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