Travel statistics: 8-14 October 2007

Top 10 ski destinations 

1. Geneva
2. Vancouver
3. Zurich
4. Calgary
5. Denver
6. Toulouse
7. Innsbruck
8. Salzburg
9. Turin
10. Grenoble

 

Source:  Cheapflights.co.uk searches

 

 

Top 10 spookiest hotels in the US

1. Farnsworth House, Pennsylvania
2. St. James Hotel, New Mexico
3. Menger Hotel, Texas
4. Hotel Queen Mary, California
5. The Hawthorne Hotel, Massachusetts
6. The Myrtles Plantation, Louisiana
7. Stanley Hotel, Colorado
8. Silver Queen Hotel, Nevada
9. Gadsden Hotel, Arizona
10. Inn at 835, Illinois

 

Source: TripAdvisor

 

 

Top 10 destinations

1. Egypt 
2. Turkey  
3. Cyprus 
4. Mexico  
5. Dominican Republic 
6. Tunisia  
7. Cuba 
8. Belgium 
9. Thailand 
10. Maldives

 

Source: Gazetteers.com  

 

 

Top 20 travel search terms

1	Ryanair	11	Cheap flights
2	EasyJet	12	AA
3	Multimap	13	First Choice
4	AA route planner	14	Travel lodge
5	Train times	15	Maps
6	Google Earth	16	British Airways
7	Thomas Cook	17	Holidays
8	Expedia	18	Route Planner
9	AA route finder	19	Thomson
10	National Rail	20	Thomson Holidays

 

Source: Hitwise for week ending October 13

 

 

Airbus A380 in statistics

 

• 471 – the number of seats on the first A380 due to enter service with Singapore Airlines next week
• 80 metres – the aircraft’s wing span, 15 metres more than the Boeing
• 747560 tonnes – the A380’s weight
• 75 grammes – the average amount of C02 the A380 will emit per passenger per kilometre
• 189 – number of A380s on order to date