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New Delhi: The Internet is now revolutionising holidays, brining with them a new kind of web vacation experience. Virtual holidays are the latest trend in the cyber world.

The luggage required for this holiday is a high-speed Internet connection, a credit card and a tech avatar and one is ready to go.

This virtual world has numerous cities and destinations that have never been visited before, at least not in reality. So, virtual travel agents guide users to plan their trips.

Synthravels is one of the first Virtual travel agents in business and Mario Girosa, who is based in Italy, started this experience.

The website offers free membership, trial trips to some destinations, and tour guides who will take you to the worlds you're most suited for.

If you are the average tourist, then Second Life is your place. You can shop, buy land, use their currency and even create the city as you go along.

When it comes to adventure tourism, the award-winning world of Warcraft transforms you into a warrior who fights mythical beasts alongside other tourists.

These online communities are crowd pullers as one can meet and befriend endless number of residents and other tourists in the virtual world one is in.

What one is left in the end is an unreal feeling with no stamp on the passport or shoes that are not full of sand from going to the beach.

This holiday experience is once in a lifetime, for those looking to have some fun before an actual vacation.