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Online Travel Agent Market Forecast 2024-2033: Growth Rate, Drivers, And Trends

The Online Travel Agent by The Business Research Company provides market overview across 60+ geographies in the seven regions – Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, the Middle East, and Africa, encompassing 27 major global industries. The report presents a comprehensive analysis over a ten-year historic period (2010-2021) and extends its insights into a ten-year forecast period (2023-2033).

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According to The Business Research Company’s Online Travel Agent, The online travel agent market size has grown steadily in recent years. It will grow from $865.5 billion in 2023 to $905.89 billion in 2024 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.7%. The growth in the historic period can be attributed to rise in disposable income, strong economic growth in emerging markets, rapid population growth, demographic shift, improved earning capacity, a rise in e-commerce, acceptance of solo travel and technological advances.

The online travel agent market size is expected to see strong growth in the next few years. It will grow to $1121.02 billion in 2028 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.5%. The growth in the forecast period can be attributed to rapidly growing urban population, increasing population growth, a shift in travel trends, the resurgence of staycation, faster economic growth, a surge in smartphone users, increased car rental opportunities, technology, and government initiatives. Major trends in the forecast period include focus on new technology developments, new and innovative product launches, focus on offering attractive packages to the solo travelers to maximize profits, focus on customer acquisition by launching direct booking platforms, focus on improving rank on search engines to attract customers, consider investing in chatbots to improve customer experiences and consider investing in acquisitions to improve user experience and to have a wider customer base.

The surge in smartphone users along with growing internet penetration is anticipated to boost the online tourism industry and the business for travel agents during the period. Increasing penetration of the internet and growth in the number of smartphone users is contributing to the consumer shift towards online channels for travel ticket and hotel bookings. For instance, according to a special report on Digital 2020 published by We Are Social in January 2020, the number of internet users in 2020 augmented to 4.54 billion across the globe, recording a growth of 7% or 298 million new users compared to January 2019. Furthermore, according to Zippia, as of 2022, there are 6.65 billion smartphone users globally, and this number is expected to grow to 7.34 billion by 2025. Consequently, the rise in the number of smartphone users coupled with increasing internet penetration is forecast to propel the revenues for the growth of online travel agent market in the years to come ahead.

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The online travel agent market covered in this report is segmented –

1) By Service Type: Vacation Packages, Travel, Accommodation

2) By Platform: Mobile/Tablet Based, Desktop Based

3) By Category: Hotel Bookings, Tickets, Others

Growing initiatives by the government of various countries to promote tourism and built strong tourism infrastructure to boost the revenues generated from the tourism industry is a major trend propelling the growth of the online travel agent market during the period. For instance, according to The Budget 2022, the Government of India allocated an additional amount of INR 2400 crores ($307.12 million) to the Ministry of Tourism. This budget is 18.42% higher than 2021-22, and it will be used by the Ministry of Tourism for developing tourism infrastructure, marketing and promotion, and capacity building. Therefore, the government initiatives and steps to promote tourism and develop tourism infrastructure are to act as a key trend in the online travel agent market over the period.

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