Only in Spain online trading turnover amounted to EUR 5,800 million, a 11% increase over the previous year, according to a report of the Market Commission (CNMV), which states that the most dynamic sector was the e-tourism with 32.6% equivalent to 514.6 million euros.
Followed by direct marketing and gaming, betting and online casinos with a turnover of 154.8 and 95.8 million euros, respectively, also revealed a deficit in the balance of goods and services marketed by online media.
Impediments to trade in the world via Internet
Despite the encouraging growth figures, there is still much to be done to consolidate this new form of global online marketing and have it shortened trading volumes existing in developing countries to those registered in Western Europe, USA, Japan Korea.
Same as for being determined by globalization and technological advances, is among its most important obstacles the problem of access prices, its overall assessment, the small impact of broadband in developing countries, and concern for the security.
And with that latter issue is precisely to see the continuing concern about the payment of virtual shopping, which is one of the impediments to the final launch of e-business in countries like Spain, as alleged from bodies such as the Spanish Federation Read the rest of this entry »
The “e-commerce grew in Iberian lands in 2009, much remains to be done to consolidate it as a modern and secure means global marketing.
The volume of global e-commerce continues its upward trend in recent years, amid the vicissitudes of the global crisis. And Spain could not be the exception, where online trading turnover amounted to EUR 5,800 million, up 11% over the previous year
It is however much to be done to consolidate this new form of international trade, as determined by economic globalization and especially the technological advances of the hand of innovation, are redefining both the present and future of society new patterns of behavior that behave.
Definition of electronic commerce
The e-commerce, the English translation of electronic commerce is the purchase or sale of products or services through electronic media such as Internet and other computer networks, encompassing not only the commercial exchange of tangible products online between people and businesses but also purchase virtual items such as software, access to premium content from a website, etc.
The emergence of the Internet in the mid-90s, was the impetus for this new form of trade also resulted in a boost to electronic means of payment and a new way to use credit cards, something complemented in 1995 with the initiative “A Global Marketplace for SMEs”, created by the G7/G8 in order to accelerate the use of electronic commerce between companies around the world.