More and more on-line travel search engines are springing up on the internet every day.

Using travel search engine tools can save you money and time and help you get the best deal, but it is important to remember that when you use a travel search tool, you will only be searching amongst the hotels, flights, car hire and other travel related businesses that the search company has established contracts with.

If you are looking to get the best deal, you will really need to search across a broad selection of travel search tools to ensure you are comparing the widest cross section of travel companies to buy from.

To try this out for real I selected ten hotel search engines from which to book hotels in Rome, Singapore, London, Delhi and Chicago. I input the same check in and check out dates, and the room requirements were entered into the search engines.

A count of the hotels offered revealed that just over 60% of the hotels were common to all the search engines, mainly the big hotel chains. Of the remaining 40%, only half the hotels were found on more than one search engine.

The best deals found in terms of price were those hotels unique to one or two of the search sites.

The same exercise was repeated for the flight search engines. Some of the flight search engines could not provide flights to the destinations selected, on the days that were input into the search engine.

Many of the travel search engines provide facility to find hotels, flights and car hire. When these search engines were used to hire a car, it was apparent that the best deals could be found by going directly to the car hire company offering services direct, at the destination.

To enable you to track down the best deal and put together a travel package that suits you, go to http://www.travel-tastic.net. On the site you can find a range of hotel, flight, car hire travel search engines to choose from. There are also many other resources to help you get the best price and check availability directly from travel companies of all kinds, ranging from theatre and events tickets to luxury cruises and package holidays.