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So the Internet become a new market and creates a new way to consume

So the Internet is a big economic sector but it is also playing a big role on the development of other economic sectors in Global Economy.

So the tourism and hospitality market are very popular but their development is maybe not only due to the rising standard of living and to the increasedleisure time. Indeed there is maybe an important link between these two sectors.

The tourism market has changed considerably thanks to the advent of the Internet and new technologies.

they have conducted many market research targeted to the knowledge of this information. According to research, 33% of users on a sample of 1000 uses the Internet to organize their own holidays. According to other surveys, 89% of tourism businesses now have its own website.

This proliferation of Web sites is no doubt due to strong demand from consumers seeking information. Online Travel Consumers want to have direct contact with the supplier, to find more information and to save, thanks to the Internet reduces the need to use intermediaries and therefore all costs relating to the various tourist enterprises. A high percentage of the online sale of tourist products is held for example by low cost airlines, but also many hotels and tourism service providers of various kinds offer the possibility to book, purchase and pay for the service using tools such as emails and bank transfers and credit card transactions online

It has already led to the generation of new services, such as online brochures and interactive videotext. Technology has the greatest impact on the marketing and distribution of travel but leaves relatively untouched the human-intensive areas of guest-host relations and supplier-consumer relationships. Information technologies applied to the tourism system will increase the efficiency and quality of services provided and leads to new combinations of tourism services

Information and communication technology can be used not only for operational purposes, but also for tactical and strategic managemen

The Internet is not severely sensitive to the economic cycles. However, it is considered that the tourism or hotel sales from the Internet will be much affected by economic changes in those countries, from which the customers are booking or reserving the product. These include changes in economic growth, interest rates, inflation or currency fluctuations that can eliminate tourism organisation’s cost advantage and can have an adverse affect on the margins.