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Introducing the ETC New Media Trend Watch

The internet has revolutionised the way in which consumers make their travel decisions. Web-based marketing campaigns have become an increasingly important means of promoting destinations and tourism services. Social networking websites provide forums for tourists to discuss the places they have visited. More and more people are booking online.

New Media Trend Watch has been created to help keep European tourism marketing professionals fully up to date on trends in internet usage by tourism consumers across the world. As well as the latest tourism and travel news stories on online marketing and ecommerce, it offers research reports and white papers, a free newsletter and a unique graph service for comparing country data. And all this is entirely free of charge, courtesy of the European Travel Commission.

Graphs & Statistics

Percentages of people online in France, Sweden, UK, and the US in 2011 (Source: Internet World Stats).
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Newsflash

1 in 3 consumers would never purchase products via Facebook
Facebook reached nearly 800 million subscribers worldwide at the end of 2011
Social networking is the most popular online activity worldwide
Hotels are among the most popular location-based check-in categories for North Americans
US online travel growth to slow through 2013
 

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