The Internet is the Travel Booking Channel of Choice for Business


	The Internet is the Travel Booking Channel of Choice for Business

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2900f42e-ae8a-41cf-908b-ba0894a013a1/788950E1-821D-497D-A0B6-6A8F6DA8AB91/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1006684" href="http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1006684" style="font-size: 11px;">www.emarketer.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1006684"><SPAN class="big_red_text_multiline" id="lblTitle">Businesses Hit the Web for Travel
</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1006684"><P>The Internet is the travel booking channel of choice for businesspeople. That is according to a September 2008 <A target="blank" href="http://www.btnmag.com/">Business Travel News</A>-sponsored study conducted by <A target="blank" href="http://www.equationresearch.com/">Equation Research</A> and cited by <A target="blank" href="http://www.hospitalitynet.org/">Hospitality Net</A>.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1006684"><DIV>US business travelers surveyed who flew more than six times during the previous 12 months preferred to book their trips online instead of by phone or e-mail. That held true whether the travelers booked directly with suppliers or had their corporate travel departments handle the bookings.
</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1006684"><P>“Travelers like the option of booking business trips online because it allows them to manage their itineraries from any location at any time, using their laptop or mobile device,” said Jeffrey Grau, senior analyst at eMarketer.  
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1006684"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.emarketer.com/img/AACBA818-8699-4531-8087-BCBCC11B51C6" alt="Preferred Method for Booking Travel According to US Business Travelers, by Segment, September 2008 (% of respondents)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1006684"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.emarketer.com/img/E2C4286D-1DCE-464F-81BB-BC5F8CDAF706" alt="Average US Online Business Travel Fare Booked via Public Websites vs. Corporate Travel Management Companies, 2003-2007" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/788950E1-821D-497D-A0B6-6A8F6DA8AB91/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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