旅游业将会成为电子商务的最大舞台。到1999年,旅游业的网上销售将会超越计算机硬件和软件而成为最大的零售项目。到那时,旅游业的网上收入将从今年的6.5亿美元上升至28亿美元。“旅游业是世界第二大行业”弗雷斯特研究所的分析员西蒙·威廉姆斯(Seema Williams)说:“随着时代的进步,旅游代理商必须紧紧抓住网络,不然就会失去休闲旅游方面的业务。坐在办公室里的旅游代理商用了网络就会更加有利可图。” Tourism will become the biggest stage of e-commerce. By 1999, online sales of tourism will overtake computer hardware and software to become the largest retail project. By then, tourism online revenue will rise to $ 2.8 billion from $ 650 million this year. “Tourism is the world’s second largest industry,” said Seema Williams, an analyst at Forrester Research. "As time goes by, travel agencies must keep a tight grip on the network or else Lost leisure travel business travel agents sit in the office with the network will be more profitable.