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Americans are rapidly moving away from desktops and getting comfortable, real comfortable, booking all of their travel reservations on tablets and smartphones. In other words, we re making our travel plans on mobile devices, not desktops and laptops.
For the first six months hawaii hotel oahu discount of 2014, over 40 percent of Americans booked travel reservations flights, hotels, cruises, for example on mobile devices, up more than 20 percent for the same period last year, according to Criteo s new Travel Flash Report. Criteo is Paris-based with offices in New York and the Bay Area.
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hawaii hotel oahu discount When you think about usage right now, and you re sitting at home on an iPad or Android, it s a leisure act. Laptops are more task based. People hawaii hotel oahu discount use laptops to really think about making the purchase. But more are doing it on mobile, Jason Morse, Criteo s veep for mobile products, told VentureBeat.
The Travel Flash Report is relatively comprehensive. hawaii hotel oahu discount Other findings indicate that mobile devices smartphones and tablets now account for 21 percent of hotel bookings. Peer-to-peer apartment rentals booked through mobile is now 34 percent globally, not just in the States.
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With users increasingly relying on mobile devices to do more in their lives (just like Steve Jobs predicted), advertisers are paying close attention to these numbers. And an comprehensive report in the Economist hawaii hotel oahu discount earlier this year put the vast revenue generated by the world s three biggest online hawaii hotel oahu discount booking sites into context:
Expedia, which Microsoft hawaii hotel oahu discount sold in 2001, has become the world’s biggest travel agent (see chart). Last year, through brands such as Trivago, Hotels.com and Hotwire, as well as its eponymous hawaii hotel oahu discount operation, its gross bookings were $39.4 billion. The third-largest travel agent is also an online firm: Priceline, whose brands include Booking.com, made reservations worth $39.2 billion in 2013. Last year online travel agents (OTAs) had combined bookings of $278 billion, according to Euromonitor, a market-research firm.
Mobile penetration trends in Asia, Latin America, and Europe, mirror, more or less, the mobile numbers in the States. Indeed, Asia has seen a 20 percent growth on those booking hawaii hotel oahu discount through mobile devices. But in Germany, the biggest economy in all of Europe, online booking with a mobile device stood at a paltry 10 percent.
“With smart phones and tablets in nearly every consumer’s hands today, travel marketers need to think strategically about developing a highly effective omni-channel marketing experience. hawaii hotel oahu discount That means ensuring the entire consumer experience – from the ads to shopping carts – is mobile optimized, Morse said.
Sky s the limit for increased mobile penetration in the travel sector, just a few months away from the beginning hawaii hotel oahu discount of 2016. And the above numbers, impressive as they are, will likely be dwarfed in the first months of the new year.