Let's face it: traveling could use a universal upgrade.

We travel because it is both necessary and fun: taking vacations, visiting family and exploring new regions are all positive and often imperative reasons to get on a plane.

But that doesn't mean that the journey should suffer at the hands of essentiality. As CNN points out, the industry of travel is a flawed one that, like most businesses, often must scrape by on less than flush cash.

However, there are still small steps that can be taken within the traveling world that will make our trips significantly better.

We're not asking for huge first-class seats in coach, nor lavish accommodations for dirt cheap prices. Here are just a handful of ways the travel industry could increase customer satisfaction.

1. Be clear about ticket pricing, please.

You're online, you're buying your plane ticket, you're happy with the price. Then, you suddenly get to check out and you are hit with a slew of taxes you didn't even know existed.

Perhaps you got an e-mail alerting you of $88 round trip deals, and you head to the site for purchase. Suddenly your too-good-to-be-true ticket has doubled-how did that happen?

Online ticket providers and search databases need to operate within a realm of clarity when it comes to pricing: just be up front about it! Chances are, a consumer will be more satisfied by a no-fuss, no-frills ticket sale than an attractive lie.

2. Invent one plug socket

How many times have you gotten a plug converter that didn't apply to, say, a socket in the UK, or one in India? There must be some kind of invention that will alleviate this annoyance, and someone has got to come up with it. Two metal pins in the United States, three fat metal pins for India, two round pins in Europe...it's enough to make heads spin.

3. Get rid of the beverage cart

CNN suggests flights two hours or less should hand out bottled water and sell wine, beer and soft drinks at the departure lounge. This will save airlines money, (as the carts themselves cost carriers millions of dollars), space, and bruised funny bones.