Online Clothing Sales Surpass Computers for the First Time; To Hit $22.1B in 2007
Americans last year spent more online on
clothing than they did on computers for the first time in history, according
to the first part of The State of Retailing Online 2007 report by
Shop.org and Forrester Research. The report found the apparel, accessories
and footwear category reached $18.3 billion in 2006 and is expected to hit
$22.1 billion in 2007.
US
online consumer travel sales - airline, hotel, rental car, cruise and
vacation package reservations - will reach $94 billion this year, up 19%
over 2006, 
U.S.
retail e-commerce sales for the fourth quarter of 2006 jumped 24.6% from
the same period in 2005 to $29.3 billion, 
The
recent Burst Media study found that 79.0% respondents will use the
Internet to plan their upcoming personal travel. In
2007, for the first time, online travel bookings will account for 
Customer
satisfaction with e-commerce surpassed that of offline retail by 11.6%,
according to the 4th Quarter 2006 American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI)
E-Commerce Report 
U.S.
off-line retail sales influenced by consumers' online browsing and
research will increase by a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12%
over the next five years to hit $1 trillion by 2011,with the
off-line-influenced sales reaching 40% of total US retail sales, 
In
2007, for the first time, online travel bookings will account for over
half (54%) of all U.S. travel bookings, 
