Travel spending surges online

Travel Weekly : "Researchers say travel buying in the U.S. has turned a corner: Excluding corporate travel, more travel dollars in the U.S. will be spent online this year than offline.

And in 2006, with corporate travel in the mix, the travel dollars spent on the Web will have eclipsed those spent offline in the U.S., as well, the prognosticators say.

In the U.S., some $66 billion, or 58%, of leisure and unmanaged business travel will be purchased online in 2005, according to PhoCusWright projections. And that figure climbs to $78.5 billion, or 66%, in 2006."