Most popular travel websites in the US for the week ending December 5 2009:
Agency
Rank Website Domain Percentage of Visits
1 Expedia www.expedia.com 14.10%
2 Travelocity www.travelocity.com 8.36%
3 Priceline.com www.priceline.com 8.33%
4 Orbitz www.orbitz.com 7.06%
5 Yahoo! Travel travel.yahoo.com 4.96%
6 Bing Travel www.bing.com/travel 4.27%
7 CheapoAir.com www.cheapoair.com 4.23%
8 Hotwire www.hotwire.com 4.21%
9 Lowfares.com www.lowfares.com 3.51%
10 Cheap Tickets www.cheaptickets.com 3.37%
Destinations and Accommodation
Rank Website Domain Percentage of Visits
1 TripAdvisor www.tripadvisor.com 5.59%
2 Hotels.com www.hotels.com 2.31%
3 Marriott International www.marriott.com 2.12%
4 InterContinental Hotels Group www.ichotelsgroup.com 1.95%
5 Walt Disney World disneyworld.disney.go.com 1.63%
6 Hilton Hotels Online www.hilton.com 1.61%
7 Carnival Cruise Lines www.carnival.com 1.41%
8 National Park Service www.nps.gov 1.40%
9 Harrah's Casino Hotels www.harrahs.com 1.35%
10 Choice Hotels International www.choicehotels.com 1.03%
Airlines
Rank Website Domain Percentage of Visits
1 Southwest Airlines www.southwest.com 21.12%
2 Delta Air Lines www.delta.com 9.96%
3 American Airlines www.aa.com 9.16%
4 JetBlue Airways www.jetblue.com 7.32%
5 United Airlines www.united.com 5.89%
6 Continental Airlines www.continental.com 5.73%
7 AirTran Airways www.airtran.com 5.33%
8 Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air www.alaskaair.com 4.49%
9 US Airways www.usairways.com 3.86%
10 Northwest Airlines www.nwa.com 3.45%
Travel search terms
Rank Search Term Percentage of Clicks Percentage Paid Percentage Organic
1 Mapquest 3.98 8.57% 91.43%
2 Mapquest driving directions 1.83% 16.64% 83.36%
3 Google maps 1.23% 25.40% 74.60%
4 Maps 1.09% 19.99% 80.01%
5 Southwest airlines 0.90% 15.62% 84.38%
6 Google earth 0.73% 15.93% 84.07%
7 Map quest 0.67% 7.47% 92.53%
8 Mapquest.com 0.58% 5.07% 94.93%
9 Cheap flights 0.52% 47.44% 52.56%
10 Travelocity 0.48% 37.23% 62.77%
NB: Data courtesy of Experian Hitwise












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