The pie charts demonstrate how international students booked the online English courses in Australia, the USA and Canada in 2009 and 2010.
Looking from an overall perspective, it is readily apparent that the proportions of students booking the online courses increased in all three countries throughout the whole period, while the three remaining categories varied by years and by countries.
The figures of booking the courses via the Internet had grown from 24 to 39% in Australia by 2010, in the USA and Canada the percentage had increased by 3, having 28% and 30% respectively by the end of the period. These data accounted for the largest share in all three countries.
Considering changes to the use of other booking methods, the proportions of all of them remained almost unchanged in America. The percentage of pre-booked with agents method had gone up 4%, while the other methods percentage had slightly declined to 22% by 2010. In Australia the second ranked way to book the cources had become doing it on arrival with 35%. Other shares, except the one of online reservation, demonstrared a decrease by almost 8% each. The most noticeable changes had been undertaken in Canada. The percentage of those who preferred the booking-on-arrival method had halved by 2010 with 15%, whereas booking through agents and other methods began to be used more frequently, at 35% and 20% respectively. It is noteworthy that in 2010, the agent pre-booking method prevailed over the online method.