More than half of visitors to Ireland this year used the internet to plan their holiday, according to new figures from Tourism Ireland.
Delegates at a major eMarketing conference held in Dublin were told that by 2010, over 75 percent of holidaymakers to the island of Ireland would be using the internet to plan or book their vacations.
According to the Town and Country Homes Association, which claims to represent the majority of B&B owners in Ireland, its members are actively using the internet in order to attract visitors. Research carried out by the organisation earlier this year found that 65 percent of its members now have websites, with 75 percent of these using the internet on a daily basis. Moreover, as many as one in five members are now also using SMS texting for business purposes.
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Allen on October 16th, 2006 at 6:29 am
Agree that net is playing a bigger role in tourism. But with so many sites floating around, it becomes difficult to identify the genuine sites