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'The UK Market Is Now Experimenting With Many ``Travel 2.0'' Applications Involving User-Generated Content' reveals the report 'Online Travel Worldwide'.


DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c40414) has announced the addition of emarketer's Online Travel Worldwide: A Mosaic of Separate Markets to their offering.

Online travel markets are at various stages of development. In the US, the world's largest market, growth is strong, but slowing. Europe, less than half the size of the US market, still has upside potential Upside potential

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. But in the Asia-Pacific region, China and India are on the way to becoming market powerhouses.

Attention: Marketers, Advertising Agencies, Educators, Retailers and Researchers.

The Online Travel Worldwide report analyzes the similarities - and differences - between online travel markets in order for marketers to create straight-line routes to success.

Markets at different stages of development can be valuable laboratories for learning. For example, the UK market is now experimenting with many "Travel 2.0" applications involving user-generated content, mapping and RSS feeds that have been used in the US travel market. US firms, by the same token, can follow the progress of Asian companies developing travel applications for mobile phones.

Of course, technologies and marketing programs used in one country cannot always be applied with the same results in other regions - but development times can often be shortened and many mistakes can be avoided altogether.

Key questions the "Online Travel Worldwide" report answers:

--How do the online travel markets in the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific compare in size and growth potential?

--What are some of the key features that distinguish regional travel markets?

--What are some of the common threads across regional travel markets?

--How do traditional travel agents, online travel agents and direct suppliers compete in major travel markets?

--And many more...

Sources:

Abacus Accenture ACNielsen AGOF Analysys International Association of British Travel Agents The Association of British Travel Agents, commonly abbreviated to ABTA, is a trade organization of British travel agents, founded in 1950.

As of May 2005, it has 6310 Travel Agent members, and 1052 Tour Operator members; 85% of package holidays in the United Kingdom
 (ABTA ABTA n abbr (= Association of British Travel Agents) → Verband der Reiseveranstalter ) Association of Corporate Travel Executives | The Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE) is a not-for-profit professional association of business travel stakeholders throughout the world. The ACTE purpose is to advance the interests of the business travel industry, to promote industry networking  (ACTE ACTE Association for Career and Technical Education (formerly American Vocational Association)
ACTE Association of Corporate Travel Executives
ACTE Approvals Committee for Terminal Equipment
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) Association pour le commerce et les services en ligne (ACSEL ACSEL Advanced Communication Systems Engineering Laboratory ) Canadian Internet Project Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT cwt

112 pounds avoirdupois weight.
) Centre for Regional and Tourism Research - Denmark China Internet Network Information Center China Internet Network Information Center (Simplified Chinese:中国互联网络信息中心), or CNNIC in short, founded as a non-profit organization on June 3, 1997, is the administrative agency responsible for Internet  EmailLabs eMarketer Euromonitor Federation des Enterprises de Vente Distance (FEVAD) Forrester Research Internet Sources: Mobile Association of India (IAMAI IAMAI Internet and Mobile Association of India ) Internet Sources: Online Association of India (IOAI) KPMG KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (accounting firm)
KPMG Kaiser Permanente Medical Group
KPMG Keiner Prüft Mehr Genau (German)
KPMG Kommen Prüfen Meckern Gehen
 Mintel MORI MORI n abbr (Brit) (= Market & Opinion Research Institute) → institut de sondage

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 - Market Sources: Opinion Research International Nielsen//NetRatings PhoCusWright Inc. Raffour Interactif TNS TNS

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 Infratest World Travel Sources: Tourism Council Yahoo! ZUJI
Contents Include:

Impetus
Online Leisure/Unmanaged Business Travel Sales in the US, Europe and
 the Asia-Pacific Region, 2005 (billions and % increase vs. prior
 year)

Issues & Questions
The eMarketer View
Key eMarketer Numbers: Worldwide Online Travel
A Global View of Travel
Total Travel
Total Personal and Business Travel Spending In Major Economies
 Worldwide, 2004-2010 (billions and % increase vs. prior year)

Personal and Business Travel Spending in Major Economies Worldwide,
 2006 (billions, CAGR and market share)
Online Travel
Product Categories Included in the Last Three Online Purchases of
 Internet Users Worldwide, April-May 2005 (% of respondents)
Top 10 Countries Where Internet Users Purchased Airline Tickets in One
 of Their Last Three Online Purchases, April-May 2005 (% of
 respondents)
Airline Tickets Purchased Online according to Airlines Worldwide, 2005
 & 2006 (% of total)

Payment Methods Used by Online Buyers in Select Countries Worldwide,
 April-May 2005 (% of respondents)
Channel Used Most Often by Business Travelers Worldwide to Book
 Business Trips, April 2006 (% of respondents)
Experience of Business Travelers Worldwide Booking Travel, Offline vs.
 Online, April 2006 (% of respondents)
Business Travelers Worldwide Who Prefer Doing Their Own Travel Booking
 vs. Having an Assistant or Travel Agent Do It, April 2006 (% of
 respondents)
Cheapest Distribution Channel for Hotel Room Bookings Used by Business
 Travelers in Select Countries Worldwide, February 2005 (% of
 respondents)

Business Travelers in Select Countries in the Asia-Pacific Region Who
 Book More Than 40% of Their Business Travel Online, October-November
 2005 (% of respondents)

North America

Canada

Europe

The UK

France

Germany

The Asia-Pacific Region

China

India

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