As the tourism industry expands globally, the need for expanding the communication networks to connect the customers and the service providers has increased. The world wide web has been utilised as a means for communication widely over the past decade in the travel and tourism industry. It has been instrumental in helping the tourism sector to expand its markets across the continents and has played a major role in helping the growth of the industry.

The world wide web is a cost effective means for enterprises in the travel and tourism sector to directly market their offerings to a large customer population across the globe. It is also a very convinient means for the customers to gather information and compare between alternatives in an interactive manner.

The UK Travel List portal is more then just a directory listing, it has been developed to aid enterprises in the the travel and tourism industry with overcomming the technological barrier and providing a one-stop easy to use full featured on-line solution.