Whatever your choice for best getaway, Travel and Leisure’s editors say you should spend lots of time on the Internet to get the best air fares and package deals before you spend your money.

Britons in particular have taken with gusto to scouring the Internet for cheap deals on flights, hotels, hire cars and even package holidays, dispensing with intermediaries.

Figure 2 illustrates a more robust alternative that relies on an application-defined object model to isolate the code that deals with XML in a Serialization package.