Travelocity, one of the major travel sites on the internet, continued to increase its Spanish language offerings yesterday as they launched a new Spanish language version of the website.According to Market Watch, the new site is aimed specifically at Latin America, and within that specifically at Chile, Columbia, and Peru.On the site there are over 70,000 hotels added for the region as well as expanded flight and car rental options for those traveling in this region of the world.Travelocity launched an Argentine specific site in April and had launched one of Mexico even before that.This new expansion compliments its older offerings, making it a more comprehensive source for Latin American and Spanish language travel.

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Over the last eight years, the use of Spanish on the Internet has tripled, making it the fastest growing language on the web.According to the Clarín, at the end of 2007 102 million users on the Internet were Spanish speakers, representing 8.7 percent of total users.This makes Spanish the third most spoken language on the web, behind English with 366 million users and Chinese with 184 million.The survey was carried out by a telecommunications organization (ONTSI) in Spain and seems to justify decisions by companies like AOL who are expanding their services to cater to this ever-growing language market.

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