Online travel spending up 15%

Saturday, 08 Aug, 2006 0

Online travel spending will be up almost 15% in the first six months of 2006, estimated comScore Networks.

Travel spending reached $34.7 billion in that time frame.

From January through June, total online spending by consumers reached almost $81 billion, a more than 20% increase over the same period last year.

Overall, comScore forecasts that all online spending this year will reach $170 billion. Of that number, comScore forecasts that non-travel e-commerce spending will represent $102 billion in 2006, breaking the $100 billion barrier for the first time.

Report by David Wilkening



 

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