![Top Reasons For Booking Travel Offline, Online Or via Mobile, March 2014 [TABLE]](http://www.emarketer.com/images/chart_gifs/172001-173000/172695.gif "Table - Top Reasons For Booking Travel Offline, Online Or via Mobile")
As online bookings become the norm, the travel industry is focusing on the next channel—mobile. eMarketer estimates that mobile travel bookings are beginning to boom, with US mobile travel sales, including travel purchases on both tablets and smartphones, expected to increase 59.8% this year to reach $26.14 billion. On top of that, we expect the number of mobile travel bookers in the US to grow 27.5% in 2014 to hit 33.5 million consumers.
However, TripAdvisor’s “TripBarometer 2014” study, conducted by Ipsos MORI, found that mobile still had a long way to go when it came to winning over travelers, with just 4% of travelers polled worldwide saying they had booked their last trip via mobile, compared with 66% who did so online. Read the rest at eMarketer.
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