Many users of the internet are surfing at home or when travelling. What type of activity is this internet surfing of private households? To a large extent it stands for consumption, but often there is also value-added since certain internet activities actively involve the user to provide certain services; e.g. if a certain individual goes to a travel agency and books a vacation trip the travel agency will charge a certain fee for this service, and this fee—reflecting wages or capital costs—are included as value-added in the System of National Accounts. If, however, the individual decides to conduct some screening of vacation options at home on the internet and then proceeds by typing in relevant data for vacation X booked on an internet platform the individual is effectively contributing to