Global Internet Audience Surpasses 1 billion Visitors, According to comScore

Asia-Pacific Region Accounts for 41 Percent of Internet Users

China Ranks as Largest Internet Population in the World

The Asia-Pacific region accounted for the highest share of global Internet users at 41 percent, followed by Europe (28 percent share), North America (18 percent share), Latin-America (7 percent share), and the Middle East & Africa (5 percent share).

“Surpassing one billion global users is a significant landmark in the history of the Internet,” said Magid Abraham, President and Chief Executive Officer, comScore, Inc. “It is a monument to the increasingly unified global community in which we live and reminds us that the world truly is becoming more flat. The second billion will be online before we know it, and the third billion will arrive even faster than that, until we have a truly global network of interconnected people and ideas that transcend borders and cultural boundaries.”

Chinese Internet Audience Outranks U.S.

China represented the largest online audience in the world in December 2008 with 180 million Internet users, representing nearly 18 percent of the total worldwide Internet audience, followed by the U.S. (16.2 percent share), Japan (6.0 percent share), Germany (3.7 percent share) and the U.K. (3.6 percent share).

As we see, France is ranked 6 by Total Unique Visitors.

Not so bad, and interesting for our TravelEuroMed2U event in Marseille about etourism and Travel 2.0

Also, our World Travel Bloggers Contest is well focused on the main countries

Prices are in China with Beijing (ranked 1)

Prices are in United States with San-Francisco (ranked 2)

Prices are in France with Marseille (ranked 6)

and 2 others prices are in the pipe (Canada with Vancouver and Austria with Vienna)

As we know all the travel bloggers there, it will be huge.

I will post soon about the event and news about our public partnerships (Marseille Tourisme Board, Marseille City, Marseille Chamber of Commerce, ODIT France…)

Best regards from Marseille

Claude

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