Travel’s share of overall B2C ecommerce is often a bellwether for maturation of an ecommerce market overall, since travel tickets tend to be the first items consumers become comfortable purchasing online. In addition, due to its relative price tag in comparison with most retail items, travel often makes up a considerable portion of digital ecommerce before consumers adopt other types of retail purchasing.
eMarketer estimates that only four markets will see travel increase its share of B2C ecommerce between 2012 and 2017: Italy, Brazil, Finland and South Korea (the latter seeing a marginal 0.2-percentage-point increase)—while each of the other countries in our forecast will see travel lose share over the period. Read the rest at eMarketer.
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