Skift’s Big List of Travel Lists From The World Over, 2013 Edition

Here at Skift we love lists, stats, charts and underlying data, and throughout our existence have written lots of stories built around these. Our SkiftIQ service is built all around data insights. Our newest Twitter feed @skiftstats has become a big hit in a week of its launch.

So we thought it would make sense to collect all these lists-meets-data stories we did over last year into one big post, and so we did, a giant list of 109 stories, some serious, some frivolous, and some just fun.

For the travel data and lists nerd in you:

1. The World’s Top Travel Companies Ranked by R&D Investment
2. The Most Common Types of Passenger Misconduct on U.S. Airlines
3. The Best Hotel Social Media Campaigns of 2013
4. The Top Business Hotels in the World, As Voted by UK Business Travelers
5. The Most Valuable Airline Brands of 2013
6. The Top Low-Cost Carriers in Southeast Asia
7. The Top Meetings Destinations in U.S.
8. The Top Low-Cost Carriers in North America
9. The Fastest Growing Travel Companies in America in 2013
10. The Luxury of TripAdvisor’s Most Pet-Friendly Hotels in the U.S.
11. The Top Low-Cost Carriers in Africa
12. The European Destinations Most Popular Among U.S. Visitors This Year
13. Tourism in 2013: The Fastest Growing European Countries
14. The 25 Most Visited International Cities By Business Travelers
15. Top Travel Industry CEOs on Social Media
16. The real 15 largest travel companies of 2013
17. The world’s 10 best hospitals for medical tourism
18. Bangkok is the biggest destination of 2013 as Asian cities take over
19. The best 100 restaurants in the world
20. The world’s 15 most expensive taxi rides from the airport to a city
21. Biggest hotel groups and brands of 2013: American companies still dominate
22. Atlanta’s airport once again tops list of busiest U.S. airports
23. Americans get half the vacation time yearly as Russians. Go figure
24. Moscow leads the world in hotel room service charges
25. Denver top city for skiing and yoga in U.S.
26. The world’s most open countries to go to, turns out, are mostly remote
27. The Majority of American Travelers Stay Plugged in on Vacation
28. Study: Denver Has Healthiest Airport Food, Atlanta’s Is the Worst
29. Customers Prefer National Car Rental in J.D. Power Survey
30. Business Travel Airfares Forecast To Decline in North America in 2014
31. Trends In U.S. Airline Employment in 2013
32. Music Tourism Brings $3.5 Billion In Revenues To UK Every Year
33. Travelers to the U.S. Visited Fewer States and Stayed for Less Time in 2012
34. The Travel Habits of Brazilians: U.S. Tops As Most Popular
35. Limited-Service Hotels are Enjoying a Renaissance Among Travelers
36. Global Airport Traffic Growth Is Being Driven By Emerging Economies
37. Top 25 Most Popular Destinations for Chinese Tourists
38. Breaking Down U.S. Domestic Airlines By Coach Seat Size and Fees
39. 7 Most Popular Types of Travel Booking Websites of 2013
40. Inside the Mind of an Average Adventure Traveler
41. The Top Online Travel Communities Used by American Travelers
42. The 10 ways in which travelers are using Twitter for tips
43. 25 most visited theme parks in the world: Florida and California dominate
44. Florida’s deep data dive highlights its most valuable tourists
45. Top 20 countries fueling U.S. tourism: Asia and Latin America on the rise, Europe in decline
46. The top 10 global airlines most dependent on extra fees
47. The world’s most popular international meeting destinations
48. The countries British travelers have fallen out of love with
49. The future of Arab travel, as reflected in its youth
50. The online planning and booking habits of ten different tourist groups
51. How travelers from ten countries access the Internet from the road
52. Chinese are now the biggest spending tourists globally, for the first time
53. SkiftStats: Water use in hotel industry & the coming crisis in Asia-Pacific
54. More people stay in NYC than leave, as population hits record high
55. The world’s fastest growing countries in travel
56. The world’s most tourism-dependent countries
57. SkiftSocial Analysis: The ten most popular cruise brands on Facebook
58. Visa-on-arrival is the new currency in global travel
59. Starwood dominates list of 10 most digitally savvy hotel brands
60. SkiftSocial Analysis: The 10 most popular international airlines on Twitter
61. Instagram’s List of Top Photographed Places in 2013
62. The Top 10 Premium Airport Lounges of 2013
63. Japan and California Top Tumblr’s List of the Most Reblogged Places of 2013
64. The Top Emerging Global Destinations Travelers Are Actually Going To\
65. Seven Top U.S. Travel Businesses Creating Jobs In America
66. The Top Low-Cost Carriers in the Middle East
67. The Top Low-Cost Carriers in Europe
68. The Top Low-Cost Carriers in Latin America
69. The Top 50 Most Popular Checked-In Places on Facebook
70. The Top 10 Spending Categories for Business Travelers: International Vs. U.S.
71. Top markets for vacation homes in the U.S.: From Nantucket to Gatlinburg
72. Saudis, Australians, and Chinese are world’s top travel spenders
73. U.S. airlines on-time performance rankings: Virgin tops, United worst
74. Consumers say Southwest, Choice Hotels and Marriott have top travel apps
75. U.S. Travel ecommerce spending tops $100 billion, airlines outpace hotels
76. The top travel trends of 2012 as defined by Google searches
77. World’s top 10 soft power ambassadors for 2013
78. The top least-visited countries on the planet: Which ones have you been to?
79. The World’s 15 Largest Business Travel Markets Are Growing
80. Travel industry jobs are biggest drivers of middle class growth in U.S., study shows
81. Mostly, people just care about an extra week of vacation as biggest work benefit
82. 15 Most Popular Photos of U.S. National Parks on Twitter in 2013
83. Ten Most Popular U.S. Destinations for Facebook Check-Ins in 2013
84. 7 Most Popular Types of Travel Booking Websites of 2013
85. Orlando stands as most popular U.S. destination with 57 million visitors in 2012
86. The 5 most popular guns found this year at TSA airport checkpoints
87. The ten most popular cruise brands on Facebook
88. The 10 most popular international airlines on Twitter
89. The 10 most popular U.S. airlines on Twitter
90. The Caribbean Islands Most Dependent on Cruise Business
91. The 20 Most Expensive U.S. Cities for Summer Car Rentals
92. How 16 Middle Eastern Airlines’ Social Efforts Stack Up
93. The Luxury of TripAdvisor’s Most Pet-Friendly Hotels in the U.S.
94. The 20 Most and Least Expensive Cities to Take Sightseeing Bus Tours
95. The annual Hotels.com Club Sandwich Index calls out Geneva for $31 meal
96. China’s ultra rich travel less, but shop much more while abroad
97.  London Heathrow Goes from Least to Most Family-Friendly Hub in 18 Months
98. 10 Most Wi-Fi-Connected U.S. Airports and 10 Least-Connected
99. Hotel Chains Are the Most Digitally Adept Brands in the Middle East
100. The 10 Most Expensive Hotel Suites in New York City
101. African Cities Rising in Ranks Among World’s Most Expensive Cities
102. How Americans Traveled Domestically Last Quarter: Mostly Alone
103. The 20 most visited museums in the world: London, Paris & DC dominate
104. The most preferred hotel brands in India
105. Most visited Caribbean countries and how they stack up during spring break
106. The world’s most marketing savvy countries in travel
107. The countries most open to foreign travelers
108. Business travelers find world’s most expensive hotels in Moscow, Lagos, and New York City
109. The world’s most ethical destinations for 2013

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