Asia Pacific Online Travel Overview Fourth Edition: Rail

Summary

If there was a recession in Asia Pacific (APAC), some of the region's railways may not know about it. While gross bookings of APAC's airline and hotel segments fell in 2009, gross ticket revenues for APAC railways grew slightly over the same period.

The role of rail varies greatly across the region, with rail penetration higher in markets with high population density such as India, China and Japan. Although online rail bookings are increasing, a range of market complexities continue to inhibit online growth, and offline channels will dominate through 2012.

Phocuswright's Asia Pacific Online Travel Overview Fourth Edition: Rail provides a detailed analysis of the rail market and online distribution in APAC, with historical market sizing and forecasting through 2012. The report covers the following:

• Asia Pacific total rail market and online leisure/unmanaged business travel passenger revenues for 2008-2012


• Channel segmentation for online travel agencies (OTAs) and rail websites, and analysis of inhibitors to intermediary distribution


• In-depth analysis for Australia/New Zealand, China, India, Japan and Singapore


• Aggregate analysis for Hong Kong, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand

Asia Pacific Travel Market Overview
To put the airline-specific trends in perspective, this report includes a comprehensive overview of the total APAC travel market. The "Overview" chapter includes market sizing and projections for the APAC region through 2012, including breakouts for major travel segments, supplier versus intermediary online distribution trends and country-level analysis. Regional market sizing is based in U.S. dollars (US$) and converted from local currencies at the average rate for the period represented.

The market sizing and projections for Japan in Phocuswright's Asia Pacific Online Travel Overview Fourth Edition have been built upon market data collected before March 2011. Phocuswright will provide an update on Japan for research subscribers and report purchasers (at no additional charge) in the second half of 2011, including updated market size and forecasts for Japan and Asia Pacific as a whole.

Purchase Phocuswright's Asia Pacific Online Travel Overview Fourth Edition: Rail to gain a comprehensive understanding of overall and country-specific trends impacting rail distribution and online penetration growth in the APAC region.