More than half of travel packages (54%) in the United States this year will be ordered via the Internet. These are the results of the forecast published by
PhoCusWright .
So far, the "offline" companies still hold an advantage, but analysts predict the growing popularity of Internet companies, which will eventually become leaders. By the way, the most actively developing segment of "online tourism" will be hotels.
The trendsetter in online travel business is still the United States. Many innovations are tested in this segment of the Internet. For them, even appeared a special term - Travel 2.0, that is, Web 2.0 in relation to tourism.