Last week 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
U.S. travel industry impact on spending, taxes and jobs in America. Source @USTravel pic.twitter.com/14JttOtabz
— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) March 29, 2014
Average car rental prices per day, across countries. France lot more expensive than others! Source: Deutsche Bank pic.twitter.com/EeOviOb9xo
— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) March 29, 2014
Proportion of first & business class seats on airlines are down bigtime since recession. Merger blues. Source @iata pic.twitter.com/Rp2TAulpnT
— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) March 30, 2014
American lodging/hotel industry, by the numbers. Source: @ahla pic.twitter.com/KDSmTYtrau
— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) March 30, 2014
Most expensive international cities for hotels & room service. Think Scandinavian. Source: @tripadvisor pic.twitter.com/y38JyJWuGK
— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) March 31, 2014
Comparative price of hotel rooms across the world, using Hyatt Regency hotel as a price. Source: Deutsche Bank pic.twitter.com/w4B9YhlrK6
— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) March 31, 2014
Rise of Staycation in UK: UK residents spending less on foreign holidays. Source: @ONS UK. pic.twitter.com/v3ANpJgjQA
— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) April 1, 2014
This is how drastically Syrian tourism has fallen over last 2 years & not getting better anytime soon. Source: @wttc. pic.twitter.com/6ZQnnMXBYQ
— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) April 2, 2014
World's busiest airports in 2013, Atlanta stays in first place, though barely so. Dubai will be King soon. pic.twitter.com/RgLDGxTApS
— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) April 2, 2014
Contributions of meetings industry to U.S. economy, numbers behind it. Employs 1.8 mn people. Source: @convindustry pic.twitter.com/j5XZiBYwGL
— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) April 2, 2014
Number of visitors to continent of Africa, now and growth. Trends lines ar apparent. Source: WTTC. pic.twitter.com/7Q5zZau7E6
— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) April 2, 2014
How does travel industry score among undergraduates looking for jobs, compared to other industries? Not so good. Sou… pic.twitter.com/SEpTtf8kIM
— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) April 2, 2014
World's busiest airports by aircraft landings/takeoffs, U.S. airports dominate, but for how long. Source: @ACIWorld pic.twitter.com/88Bdzl7viH
— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) April 3, 2014
Yearly growth in tourists to various countries in Europe. Iceland is where the action is. Source: @visiteurope pic.twitter.com/Q3ZGxUoOhl
— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) April 3, 2014
There are trending destinations for U.S. tourists to Europe. Americans are going to Greece again. Source: TourMIS pic.twitter.com/uyYCg185F8
— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) April 3, 2014
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