Exploring the use of e-shopping and its impact on personal travel behaviour in the Netherlands
ABSTRACT
The Internet makes it possible to conduct activities, such as working and shopping, without travelling to activity places. As e-shopping becomes popular, it can fundamentally change people's travel behaviour. In this study we have used a literature review, an Internet survey of e-shoppers, and the Netherlands National Travel Survey to analyse the possible impact of e-shopping on travel behaviour. The findings of our analyses indicate that people living in areas with relatively many shopping opportunities buy online as often as people who live in areas with relatively few shopping opportunities. People who spend a lot of time on in-store shopping are typically women, over sixty years of age, with a low level of education, on a low income, and living in a more urbanized area; online buyers can be characterized as men, aged between 25 and 40, highly educated, on a high income, and living in a less urbanized area. From the review and findings, we have derived four hypotheses describing the future impact of e-shopping on travel: first, some shopping time will be saved and used for other maintenance or leisure activities instead; second, the enlargement and fragmentation of an individual's action spaces will be fostered and so lead to increased travel distances; third, e-shopping will affect travel behaviour most in the urbanized Western part and in the less
Today’s on-line travel market is succeeding because the companies are using a more software-centric, online business model termed “E-commerce.” This has become the popular avenue for businesses as it mirrors the ideas of mobility. The sheer amount of data available, coupled with the advanced operating systems and social media platforms, have created new possibilities for E-commerce organizations. The infrastructure of E-commerce has expanded into platforms such as peer-to-peer networking, crowd-sourcing, social websites, and mobile devices and media. E-commerce trends are findings ways to incorporate every aspect of our daily lives into an online package associated with our everyday needs (Fishbein, 2013).
There are a number of literary elements that successful authors creatively and effectively combine so as to demonstrate their style, technique, and knowledge of writing fundamentals. In the short stories, "The Lottery" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" written by Jackson and Poe respectively, the authors depend heavily upon the settings within each story to enhance or explore elements such as mood, atmosphere, conflict, and theme. Jackson's "The Lottery" takes place in small town middle America, while Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" presumably takes place in the countryside or suburbs of the eastern seaboard of America. The authors absolutely embody the physical location of each story with the sentiments and desires of the characters within the settings, from the overall geographical location, such as a town, to specific edifices such as the actual House of Usher as well as the path into the town square where the crowd gathers for the lottery. The paper demonstrates awareness of the authors' deliberate use of setting to contribute to other important aspects of the story and the writing. The paper references textual evidence for support. The successful emotional affect of "The Lottery" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are contingent on the effective and detailed use of the settings to make prominent aspects of the works such as character and atmosphere.
Moving from Pakistan to the United States for college was an interesting transition from me. Attending a high school that followed international curriculum helped me to become more aware of the world around me other than just the sheltered live I lived in Pakistan. As I came to Indiana University to pursue my Bachelors degree in Economics, I was anxious as to how I will be able to fit in. However, after my first week at college, I discovered that my time in high school and my summer school experience at UCLA had helped me move out of my comfort zone.
* Impacts of technology e.g. on traditional operational practices for selling travel services, issuing e-tickets, offering dynamic packaging
Over the past decade, Shopping on the internet has skyrocketed with internet sales reaching almost £30 billion in 2012, which accounts to almost 10% of total sales in the UK. This is due to the increased possession of Internet devices such as: smartphones, laptops and computers. It has become much easier and simpler for
This way of buying from this online Travelodge store holds a value and there are sorted out procedures which you can look out from an online store acquirement that has its applications and makes you a relevant purchaser on the online store where there is proper accessibility asserted from web based rules and regulations which you might persistently have as an incentive built according to choices in different circumstances.
Online shopping has been a growing phenomenon all over the world especially among countries with well-developed infrastructure with marketing activities over the Internet (Kau, Tang & Ghose, 2003 ). Hawkins, Best & Coney (2001:592) are of the opinion that Internet sales will increase rapidly in years to come.
The idea behind this study is of great significance because e-commerce (online shopping) has grown tremendously since the turn of the century. It has shaped the way people do shopping for the most part.
Travel agencies, newspapers and telecommunication providers have all suffered severe competition from internet- based substitutes (Grant, 1991). However, in-store apparel shopping is less substitutable by online shopping. On the one hand, it is a product of high risk; on the other hand, the apparel shopping trips to the city center can be more enjoyable.
This report includes details about different type of E-commerce, information related to in-house and outsourcing business strategies that would be helpful in this competitive environment of travel industry and suggestions to be either fast followers or first leading that might appear in online business, for TARDIS travel and also some recommendation for this online business initiative.
According to Ajzen (1985, 1991), behavioural intention is the cognitive representation of a person’s readiness to perform a given behaviour, and it is considered to be an immediate antecedent of actual behaviour. In the current context, intention is broadly described as the consumers’ propensity to adopt Internet technology in relation to online travel transactions within a B2C e-commerce consumer oriented market. It is focusing on one dimensional behavioural intention, that is, propensity towards online purchase transactions of travel services
E-commerce has played a major role in few continents that the Internet has penetrated. Years before the emergence of e-commerce, traditional business remained the mode for transactions, which made consumers experience difficulties finding time to check various stores in search for different brands and products. However, in today’s generation, the utilization of e-commerce has conveniently provided consumers with the possibilities of doing so without the need to step out of their homes at any time of the day. E-commerce, in a matter of few years, has successfully spread throughout different industries, one of which is tourism. In this developing age of e-commerce, traditional travel agencies are forced to adapt to this change by exploiting the benefits of e-commerce to satisfy the market’s online search for holiday tours.
Compare to urban, rural brick-and-mortar retail accessibility is relatively limited. The adoption of online purchasing broadens rural retailing accessibility to levels that are almost on a par with that in more densely populated areas. This study aims to establish whether the geodemographic settings of consumers has a varying influence on their purchasing behaviors. Data collection conducted through the use of quantitative questionnaires. Four retailers with offline and online channels were selected in our context.
To understand the construct of online shopping, primary data have been used. To assess the key factor influencing the consumer to go for online shopping, the primary data were collected through questionnaire. The questionnaires were collected from 50 respondents in the area of Coimbatore city. For this purpose, the convenience sampling method was used.
The major reason why consumers choose to shop online is because of the spatial convenience it allows. That is, the consumer can, essentially, shop from the comfort of his home, in his pajamas, at midnight, without any need for physical access whatsoever. Large distances shrink to null, time becomes irrelevant, and shy customers can avoid those dreadful crowds. Chinese Ginseng tea? No problem! Rare Russian comic books? One click away! An embarrassing fetish? Of course! A well-documented study showed that the effect convenience has on consumers is rather statistically significant. It says,