SkiftStats Travel Data Weekly: 21 Stats To Start Your Week

Last month 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 21 tweets out of those, and for more: Follow Skift Stats on Twitter

Bangkok was the world's most visited city in 2013, acc to data from @mastercard, first time an Asian city topped it. pic.twitter.com/MFvgKxdsrQ

— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) April 16, 2014

There'd be 26% more hotel room nights & 15% more air passengers per year, if Americans took all entitled vacations. pic.twitter.com/1A9xHg0lLT

— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) April 12, 2014

Unbounded rise of Chinese tourists: for Q1, '14, 26.4 million tourists, 17% increase over last year! Source: http://t.co/gWzLOSwhRp

— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) April 12, 2014

Online travel market in China in 2013 grew by incredible 29% to $33.4 billion. Source: @iResearchChina pic.twitter.com/n7zoLzBHQe

— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) April 12, 2014

Whoa: "Italian Tourist Board spends astounding 98% of budget on salaries, nothing left for actual tourism promotion." http://t.co/awX613tDAW

— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) April 12, 2014

Cities Where U.S. Travelers Paid the Most For Hotels. Hawaii is expensive! Source: http://t.co/lzSVs8ch7r pic.twitter.com/W9bLazLqv3

— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) April 12, 2014

Mobile booking are being used for short stays, 70% booking on mobile for one-day stay! Source: http://t.co/kxpK9rJqgl pic.twitter.com/VnGsvLI5OS

— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) April 13, 2014

Fascinating data: iPad mobile hotel bookers book higher prices than iPhone & Android. Source: http://t.co/3WzHz25F8T pic.twitter.com/tgXRkjMf75

— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) April 13, 2014

Priceline's huge ad spend: online ads expense in 2013 was $1.8 billion, and $127.5 million in offline ads. Source: @priceline

— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) April 14, 2014

Mobile bookings at http://t.co/Gc21h36xI7 increased to $8bn last year from $3 bn in 2012 & $1 bn in 2011 http://t.co/l2U7ftk14I

— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) April 14, 2014

Piper Jaffray estimates about 68% of $300bn travel booking market in U.S. is online now, so 32% still left offline.

— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) April 15, 2014

Youth are now booking less & less ahead of time, Half bookings now made 1-3 weeks in advance compared to previous 36%. Source: @STAYWYSE

— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) April 15, 2014

Travel ad spend globally will be $46bn this yr & online's share is $10bn. Lotsa growth left. Source: Piper Jaffray. pic.twitter.com/vBufPCAFt1

— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) April 15, 2014

The rich & affluent are flying coach more often now than ever before. Source: @ThinkwithGoogle pic.twitter.com/p3GqFtytYu

— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) April 15, 2014

Online travel ad spend will still be a minority of overall travel ad spend fro years to come. Source: Piper Jaffray. pic.twitter.com/7k1pscoNOz

— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) April 15, 2014

Of the 75 million international travelers each month, 70% do not use mobile data services. Source: @syniverse pic.twitter.com/LSyDnc0Bhb

— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) April 15, 2014

Mobile travel bookings vs online booking growth in U.S. travel market, desktop still big for years. pic.twitter.com/BYCGOhrWZO

— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) April 15, 2014

If current visitor growth rates stay, by '16 Istanbul will surpass Singapore/NY/Paris; Dubai will surpass SIN/NY in '16, Paris in '17.

— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) April 16, 2014

Global Top 20 Top Destination Cities by International Overnight Visitor Spend, Asian cities rising fast. Source: Mas… pic.twitter.com/X8SkQU8Ql0

— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) April 16, 2014

3 largest hostel booking sites: Hostelworld, Booking/com, Hostelbookers.. Source: @staywyse http://t.co/j304EHWGPr pic.twitter.com/Fjh3P3tmcj

— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) April 17, 2014

64% smartphone owners use only up to 5 apps a day at most. How do you fit travel apps in? Source: @thinkwithgoogle. pic.twitter.com/Pd0dP0kSRN

— Skift Research (@skiftresearch) April 17, 2014