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Travel agent hotel bookings way ahead of consumer internet bookings
TravelCLICK’s eMonitor results for the third quarter of 2005 show that worldwide electronic hotel revenue from the Global Distribution Systems (GDS) and key Internet sites combined was up 9.4%. Room nights from the electronic channels also increased 2.2% over the same period last year.
Travel agent bookings remained the dominant source of GDS and Pegasus hotel e-business, representing 80.3% of total room nights booked. Additionally the average rate for room nights were 32.6% higher than the average rate for room nights booked via the Internet.
On a year-to-date basis, travel agent hotel room nights via the GDS were up 5.5% from the same period in 2004.
Internet (consumer online) room nights displayed a loss of 12.5% compared to the third quarter of 2004. Year to date, the Internet component displayed a 2.2% growth in room nights compared to the first three quarters of 2004.
The top ten worldwide destination markets in room nights for GDS and Pegasus third-party powered websites, in order, were New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco area, Washington DC area, Chicago, London, Dallas, Atlanta, Boston, and Houston.
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