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== Uses == === Travel industry === As of 2015, Viewdata was still in use in the [[United Kingdom]], mainly by the [[travel industry]]. [[Travel agent]]s use it to look up the price and availability of [[package holiday]]s and [[Commercial aviation|flight]]s. Once they find what the customer is looking for they can place a booking. There are a number of factors still holding up a move to a [[World Wide Web|Web]]-based standard. Viewdata is regarded within the industry as low-cost and reliable, travel consultants have been trained to use Viewdata and would need training to book holidays on the Internet, and [[tour operator]]s cannot agree on a Web-based standard. {{Citation needed|date=December 2009}} === Bulletin board systems === {{Unreferenced section|date=June 2023}} It was made in the late 1970s and early 1980s to make it easier for travel consultants to check availability and make bookings for holidays. A number of Viewdata [[bulletin board system]]s existed in the 1980s, predominantly in the UK due to the proliferation of the [[BBC Micro]], and a short-lived ''Viewdata Revival'' appeared in the late 1990s fuelled by the [[retrocomputing]] vogue. Some Viewdata boards still exist, with accessibility in the form of [[Java (Sun)|Java]] [[Telnet]] clients.
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