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How commonplace is internet use in searching for tourism proiducts.
General consumer uptake and use of the internet to locate a tourism product or service.
1.0
How many are connected to or use the internet. (Source ONS National
Statistics Omnibus Survey 23rd August 2005)
1.1 Over 13.1 million (55 percent) of households in
Great Britain could access the internet from home in May 2005.
1.2 Almost two thirds of adults in
Great Britain had used the internet in the three months prior to May
2005.
1.3 Broadband accounts for half of home internet connections.
2.0 What are people using the internet for. (Source:
ONS Internet Access - Households and Individuals – 15th August 2005.)
2.1 Of those adults who had used
the Internet for personal or private use, in the 12 months prior to the
office of national statistics
interview in
May 2005 , the most common
purchases were.
2.1.1 Travel, accommodation or holidays (52 per cent),
2.1.2 Videos or DVDs (41 per cent),
2.1.3 Music or CDs (40 per cent) and
2.1.4 Tickets for events (35 per cent).
3.0 Internet use in last three months by age. (ONS Dataset IIA1b – 23rd August 2005.)
3.1 16-24 = 94%
3.2 25-44 = 85%
3.3 45-54 = 69%
3.4 55-64 = 49%
3.5 65+ = 22%
4.0 Just under one third (32 per cent) of adults have
never used the Internet in May 2005. Of users who had not accessed the
internet.
4.1 43 per cent
stated that they did not want to use, or had no need for, or no
interest, in the Internet;
4.2 38 per cent had no Internet connection;
4.3 33 per cent felt they lacked
knowledge or the confidence to use it. These adults were also asked
which of four statements best
described what they thought about
using the Internet.
4.4 55
per cent) of non-users chose the statement 'I have not really
considered using the Internet before and I am not likely to in the
future'. This core group of non-Internet users
represented 17 per cent of all adults in Great Britain.
| Table 1 Households with home access to the Internet by gross income decile group (UK) | | | 1998-99 | 1999-00 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 P | | | Lowest ten per cent | 3 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 12 | 15 | | | Second decile group | 1 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 15 | | | Third decile group | 2 | 4 | 12 | 15 | 22 | 20 | | | Fourth decile group | 3 | 6 | 17 | 25 | 30 | 37 | | | Fifth decile group | 4 | 15 | 26 | 33 | 41 | 41 | | | Sixth decile group | 7 | 15 | 32 | 43 | 48 | 55 | | | Seventh decile group | 10 | 22 | 43 | 49 | 56 | 60 | | | Eighth decile group | 16 | 28 | 49 | 59 | 68 | 71 | | | Ninth decile group | 19 | 38 | 60 | 67 | 74 | 78 | | | Highest decile group | 32 | 48 | 73 | 80 | 85 | 89 | | | All households 1 | 10 | 19 | 32 | 39 | 45 | 48 | | | Source – ONS Family Expenditure Survey (April 1998 to March 2001); Expenditure and Food Survey (April 2001 onwards) | 
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