Abstract: A communications network for a travel information system is disclosed including a server 12, user appliances 2a, 2b, and travel operator servers 3a, 3b. The user appliances 2a, 2b are arranged to submit travel information requests to the server 12 which in turn submits requests to the relevant travel operator servers 3a, 3b. The travel operator servers 3a, 3b return formatted data to the server 12. The formatted data are clipped by the server 12 and forwarded to the user computers 2a, 2b together with an extraction tool so that a processing unit 30 in the user computer 2 can apply the extraction tool to extract relevant travel information from the formatted data.

Abstract: An electronic travel booking system is disclosed, wherein the booking system is configured to display locations of interest on an electronic map. An input analysis module 30 is configured to determine the position of a movable pointer 58 on a map, and a calculation module 28 is configured to identify any locations of interest within an area defined at least in part by the determined position of the movable pointer 58. Any locations of interest that are identified are marked 60 on the map so that they can be viewed and selected by a user as a point of origin or destination. A flight determination module 24 is arranged to determine a number of flights that match a user's requirements and these results are plotted on a graph 140 by a plotting module 106.