Posts Tagged ‘ Travel ’

Travel brands dominate latest Hot Shops List

Tweet This week we released the latest issue of the IMRG-Experian Hitwise Hot Shops List which ranks the UK’s top 50 online retailers by Internet visits. As expected, Amazon, Apple and Argos remained unmoved at the top of the list and many of the fastest moving websites climbing up the rankings were travel related because [...][ READ MORE ]

Travel Seasonality – top five facts

Tweet Online seasonality is a fascinating thing to observe. When it comes to UK Internet visits Travel is one of the most predictable industries online and yet it remains immensely competitive. Travel is one of the most mature online markets in the UK and as a result the trends have settled into regular predictable patterns [...][ READ MORE ]

Spain dominates top 10 of travel

Tweet The travel market has taken a bit of a knocking this summer. A combination of challenging economic pressures and the Olympics to keep Brits firmly on their sofas has meant that visits to the travel industry are down by 5.2%. In total the UK made 37 million fewer visits to travel websites in July [...][ READ MORE ]

New York more popular than Australia for flight searches

Tweet Ever since we started looking at the most popular destinations by flight searches back in July 2010, New York has consistently been the number one place that UK Internet users want to visit. However, since the inception of the top 50 destinations list, ‘flights to australia’ has always been the single biggest flight-related search [...][ READ MORE ]

Ash Cloud causes spike to travel and weather sites

Tweet With fresh eruptions coming from Icelandic volcanoes this week, people have been searching online for the latest updates on the ash cloud to see if their travel arrangements will be disrupted. Looking at the downstream industries receiving traffic from ash cloud related search terms on 24 May 2011, the majority of the traffic was [...][ READ MORE ]

First Choice brave to switch to all inclusive holidays

Tweet All-inclusive holidays have been enjoying a renaissance in recent years as travellers seek to control the costs of their trips abroad, but travel operator First Choice has made a bold move today by announcing that from 2012 all of its holidays will be all-inclusive. First Choice was the 10th biggest travel agency online in [...][ READ MORE ]

Post Earthquake people want to fly to Japan, not away from it

Tweet The devastating events unfolding in Japan in the wake of the biggest earthquake recorded in the country’s history has been dominating news headlines since the earthquake struck Sendai on Friday 11 March. Unsurprisingly, UK Internet users have been searching for news online about the quake and the following tsunami, causing an unprecedented volume of [...][ READ MORE ]

Egypt protests swamp holiday search terms

Tweet The recent political unrest in Egypt has had a dramatic effect on search term behaviour online and could cause a severe backlash to the Egyptian tourism industry. Protests in Cairo against president Hosni Mubarak and warnings from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to avoid all unnecessary travel to Egypt’s capital have deterred travellers from [...][ READ MORE ]

Snow dictates search behaviour to news, travel and retail sites

Tweet Online search behaviour was dictated this weekend by the snow. With the flakes falling thick and fast on Saturday there were huge spikes in traffic to news, weather, travel and social networking sites. With reports of up to five inches of snow falling in the space of an hour on Saturday, aircraft at many [...][ READ MORE ]

Goa and Marrakech fastest moving winter sun destinations this quarter

Tweet With snow up and down the country it’s little wonder that Brits are thinking of warmer climes and wanting to get away for winter sun holidays. One of the insights to come out of our latest quarterly travel report is that Goa and Marrakech are the fastest moving destinations of the quarter. Between August [...][ READ MORE ]