Two weeks ago we launched a new Twitter data feed, SkiftStats, a collection of daily travel stats, charts, and curio, curated by Skift’s editors, and has been a big hit among the travel data nerds so far.
Here are the top 15 tweets out of those, and for more: Follow Skift Stats on Twitter
Eye-opening: international business/first class air travel within continents & changes. Source: @iata pic.twitter.com/9qpDZ8KRYR
— Daily Travel Stats (@skiftstats) April 4, 2014
Here are the routes for business/first class airline travel that are growing most. EU to ME, NA to SA. Source: @iata. pic.twitter.com/T9n5WpcSKr
— Daily Travel Stats (@skiftstats) April 4, 2014
How addicted are we to our phones on holidays? Almost 70% of Europeans are. Source: @eDreams_en survey. pic.twitter.com/AfC4Fwtza1
— Daily Travel Stats (@skiftstats) April 5, 2014
'Tis the age of Whatsapp. The communication apps used by Europeans while traveling. Source: @eDreams_en survey. pic.twitter.com/GIht3TvwIC
— Daily Travel Stats (@skiftstats) April 5, 2014
Two countries you will find empty flights on domestic routes are Japan and Russia. U.S.: Forget it! Source: IATA. pic.twitter.com/yW6gAmdyNu
— Daily Travel Stats (@skiftstats) April 5, 2014
The top 10 airlines in North America, ranked by on-time arrival performance, all of 2013. Source: @flightstats pic.twitter.com/TjPr95PraE
— Daily Travel Stats (@skiftstats) April 6, 2014
Changing face of U.S. travel agency: Tours & Cruise represent largest share of sales now. Source: @AmSocTrvlAgents pic.twitter.com/JfEIIjm66I
— Daily Travel Stats (@skiftstats) April 6, 2014
Airlines/car rentals had big drops in bookings by travel agents over 2002-14. Hotels up 30%. Source: @AmSocTrvlAgents pic.twitter.com/DZHyEja4nL
— Daily Travel Stats (@skiftstats) April 6, 2014
Twitter is where the action is when customers talks about hotels, not FB. Source: @brandwatch. pic.twitter.com/jKhMnbf3r6
— Daily Travel Stats (@skiftstats) April 7, 2014
There is at least one area where Europe still rules the world: getting tourists. Shoulders above everyone else. Sour… pic.twitter.com/OFTODDgk3T
— Daily Travel Stats (@skiftstats) April 8, 2014
China (139%), Colombia (56%), India (54%), Taiwan (52%), Brazil (50%): fastest growing visitors to U.S. till 2018. http://t.co/VFIr9HMU0O
— Daily Travel Stats (@skiftstats) April 8, 2014
By 2030, the majority of all international tourist arrivals (57%) will be in emerging economy destinations. Source: … pic.twitter.com/uDkozypnzf
— Daily Travel Stats (@skiftstats) April 8, 2014
Big: NE Asia will account 42% growth in global outbound biz travel expenditure over next decade. Source: Amadeus. pic.twitter.com/Z1DPH2Uj5K
— Daily Travel Stats (@skiftstats) April 8, 2014
Days of empty international flights are gone everywhere. Except maybe those in continent of Africa. Source: IATA. pic.twitter.com/CNfg4WivAl
— Daily Travel Stats (@skiftstats) April 5, 2014
Fascinating: more tourism arrivals means rising crime in a country, Spain data shows. Source: http://t.co/BsTvPJkCoS pic.twitter.com/xduwmMvZvX
— Daily Travel Stats (@skiftstats) April 8, 2014
Boomtimes: U.S. business travel spending is now expected to rise 7.1%in 2014, to $293.3 billion. Source: @GlobalBTA
— Daily Travel Stats (@skiftstats) April 9, 2014
Breakdown of airline baggage delays in 2013, delays is most of what happens, gone are days of lost. @SITAonline pic.twitter.com/XZmZkVjSp4
— Daily Travel Stats (@skiftstats) April 9, 2014
Priceline Group will spend more than $1.5 billion in 2014 on Google advertising and Expedia could spend another $1 billion! Source: RBC
— Daily Travel Stats (@skiftstats) April 9, 2014
Asian hotspots are becoming the world's top destinations, acc to Tripadvisor data. http://t.co/axGFWICsD0 pic.twitter.com/FwmopYFNra
— Daily Travel Stats (@skiftstats) April 9, 2014
10 Countries Whose Tourists Spent Most Money in U.S. in 2013. http://t.co/X6ZwtBKJTf pic.twitter.com/JaYWRC1YO9
— Daily Travel Stats (@skiftstats) April 10, 2014
Cruise industry is stuck in the older user demographic, for a while & for future too, data shows. Source: @HarrisPoll pic.twitter.com/1TLjlE7uwT
— Daily Travel Stats (@skiftstats) April 10, 2014
If U.S. could better utilize for unused time-off for employees, $67bn more in economy every year. Source: OxfordEco pic.twitter.com/ub16MY0WxH
— Daily Travel Stats (@skiftstats) April 11, 2014
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