Most of major airlines now offer some sort of notification service, but you have to sign up for it. The same goes for online booking sites like Orbitz or Travelocity. If you’re willing to spend a little time to sign up now you can save yourself a whole lot of frustration later.

And if you create a small web site exclusively dedicated to this one location, it is quite possible that you could get a significant amount of traffic from search engines.

Let's say that 100 of us did this, and each one of us had a web site that was exclusive to a specific location, and we all used Clickbank to sell our E-books. We could all have hoplinks to each others sites, and earn commission from sale of each others E-books.

Just by joining in on this idea, you could almost instantly have 100 products that you could be making money on.

The chances of selling our own E-book at full price would be very strong, because visitor had an interest in our location to begin with. But when people are just in planning stages of a vacation, they are weighing all their options, and very well could buy a number of E-books before deciding on their final destination.

And when you really think about, it only makes sense to do so. If you're going to spend $2,000. to $5,000. for a family vacation, wouldn't it be smart to invest $100. or more to make sure you have a great time. And even if they only vacation to one of cities they considered, they have already done most of research for next years vacation.

I won't tell you that you can get rich on this brainstorm of mine, but maybe you can make a few bucks.

What if somebody else is already doing area or city that you wanted to do?

It doesn't matter. Do it any way. You will have your own web site, and your own independent marketing. The only thing you will be doing is cross promoting each other, and you only have to do that if you choose to. But think about this.

If I am going to travel to New Orleans, I am going to spend a considerable amount of money just getting there. Then I am going to spend a whole bunch more money while I am there, or I'm not going.

Would I buy two homemade tourist guides before making that trip? You bet I would. If I'm going on vacation I don't want to miss a thing while I'm there!

What did I leave out?

You can also sell advertising in your tour guide, that should bring in a few thousand.

You could buy a van and give tours of area.

You could open a bed and breakfast.

You could do a ton of things!