Either Rand McNally is the buyer of Tripology or chief executive John Peters has made a bizarre faux pas.

With news that a deal to acquire the agent lead-gen firm is imminent, Peters published a blog post late yesterday, giving away some clues as to the company’s identity.

Winning no prizes no poetry but a gold medal for guile, Peters wrote:

So there you go.

NB: For those still unsure, please note the first letter of each line

Client and server development.

These elements are seen as separate parts of the process but are obviously very complementary.

Some apps, like TripCase, have a server side to the development. You need to define this as part of the overall product definition.

This server side is a learning curve for every developer, even if they’re a master in another technology outside of mobile.

Most developers don’t have pre-set limitations on client or server side, but for mobile you need to think very differently.

Because of that, and the bugs that will arise, testing is very important in your development process.

Be strategic when you think about they type of app you’re building. How will it affect partnerships (api’s, data sharing etc) and the business model?

The Apple framework SDK that is provided can be used to build everything you want for a basic app.

The XCode coding base provides a visual tool but it might be limiting for what you want your app to be, so challenge yourself to think outside of those guidelines.

For example:

• You will have more control over the UI if you don’t use the builder and it would be easier to contain
• We might recommend coding the  UI yourself because it will allow you the  flexibility for custom components. More control allows you to change things easier.
• Custom component design will force a developer to think differently  to stretch the imagination of the components
• Make your own components so that they don’t always look standard. Ie: our main screen is custom. TripCase is a functional application, not a game etc so again it goes back to product definition, but some developing is more intense.

NB: This How To series is authored by Robyn Grassanovits, Amy Dillon, Brian Knorr, Dr Maher Ali, Shannon Mihalakos and Carmen Velazquez of TripCase – an iPhone app to handle trip and itinerary management by Sabre.

The chatter generated by Kayak when it announced it is considering adding a booking element into its model appears not to have inspired others to think the same.

But whereas the topic was rarely mentioned before, such was the determination by metasearch players to keep the model simple, it is now, by virtue of Kayak’s move, getting some air time.

For example, Skyscanner and Swoodoo, both enjoying success in Europe in the metasearch sector, are far more philosophical about setting off such a seismic move to their existing businesses.

Take Skyscanner co-founder and chief executive Gareth Williams. He acknowledges the huge implications such a move by Kayak could have on the marketplace.

Is Skyscanner ruling it out?

Ask any metasearch player just two years ago if booking was an option they would consider and the answer would’ve been dismissed.

Not any more – Kayak appears to have changed many of its rivals’ thinking. Williams now says booking is “on the list” of things to do.

He quickly adds the caveat that the company needs “to get search right first”.

Christian Saller, CEO of Swoodoo, admits that booking is actually “something we discuss now all the time”.

So from fiercely defending the metasearch model for years (almost the reverse of Cheapflights and its proud defence of price comparison  until the launch of Zugu), in a short space of time the market has changed its thinking once again.

The latest news from the GDS world, including new airline agreements, product news and initiatives.

10 March 2010:

• Amadeus launches LinkHotel, a distribution service for small to medium size hotels and groups. LinkHotel also provides reservation tools, marketing services, and commission handling.
• Amadeus division Traveltainment acquires online marketing company Pixell. The Bonn, Germany-based company handles advertising for clients through SEO, SEM, display marketing, direct marketing and affiliate marketing as well as Twitter, social networks or mobile devices.
• Travelport unveils Opinions review system in the UK and Ireland. The service, which had a successful launch in France in mid-2009, allows agents to review hotel properties and ask questions of other experts on the system.

9 March 2010:

• Net Trans and Travelport ink deal to provide hotel commission recovery to Travelport agents around the world. The Net Trans system allows agents to see how much commission has been paid or owed by a supplier as well as managing processes between the two.

8 March 2010:

• Best Western International signs enhanced contract with GTA by Travelport to boost distribution of the chain’s property descriptions
• LOT Polish Airlines and Amadeus agree extension to technology partnership to extend to the Star Alliance Common IT platform inventory system. The new agreement will complete in in the second half of 2010 and also see an upgrade to its customer management system and use of the wider Star Alliance platform.
• Sabre reveals programme with data management firm iWay Software. The Airline Solutions division of Sabre has worked with iWay to audit and analyse the Airport Data Intelligence programme, a system which tracks capacity and other details of every flight in the world.

6 March 2010:

• Bangkok Airways and Amadeus unite for travel agency promotion. Agents booking tickets on the airline through the Amadeus GDS are also entered in a prize draw. Both organisations claim an immediate increase in bookings following the launch – the promotion runs until 31 May 2010.

5 March 2010:

• Agencia Abreu seals multi-year deal with Travelport to use the Galileo GDS system. The Portuguese travel agency, one of the largest in the country and in existence since 1840, has 120 offices around the country and also a sizeable presence in the US and Brazil.

4 March 2010:

• Amadeus signs agreement to evaluate use of the Altea Customer Management System with Asiana Airlines. The Memo of Understanding will explore for future use of the Altea system for reservation, inventory and departure control processes across the Asiana network.

The ongoing overhaul of the Europcar online presence has taken an interesting new turn with the launch of a platform for use on Microsoft Surface in airports.

The idea was first mooted in November 2009 but now the first table with fully functioning tools is set to be installed at Munich Airport in Germany shortly.

Europcar, which has developed the system with UK-based digital agency Fortune Cookie, will equip the system at a number of major outlets elsewhere around Europe from the end of the first half of 2010.

The platform allows users to browse images and route options and then plot a trip on a Bing-enabled map. The tool is obviously completely hand-driven on on the horizontal Surface system.

Once a user has created a trip they will be able to print out a personal planning pack from the Europcar outlet.

Europcar says it will also stream hotel offers through the system.

The system is not exclusive to the Microsoft Surface table – users will also be able to use the system on any touch-screen computer.

Europcar’s global marketing director Jehan de Thé says:

“This approach fits with Europcar’s determination to innovate and facilitate journey planning whilst making car rental a constantly more practical and pleasant experience for our customers.”

Most popular travel websites in Australia for the week ending March 6 2010:

Agency

Rank	Website	Domain	Percentage of Visits	Previous Position
1	Webjet Australia	www.webjet.com.au	14.09%	1
2	Flight Centre	www.flightcentre.com.au	10.65%	2
3	Expedia Australia	www.expedia.com.au	7.11%	3
4	Lastminute.com.au	www.au.lastminute.com	5.92%	4
5	Expedia	www.expedia.com	3.36%	5
6	ZUJI Australia	www.zuji.com	3.20%	6
7	Airfares Flights Australia	www.airfaresflights.com.au	2.94%	7
8	Best Flights	www.bestflights.com.au	2.73%	8
9	Travelzoo Australia	www.travelzoo.com.au	1.97%	9
10	travel.com.au	www.travel.com.au	1.84%	10

Destinations and Accommodation

Rank	Website	Domain	Percentage of Visits	Previous Position
1	Wotif.com	www.wotif.com	6.61%	1
2	TripAdvisor	www.tripadvisor.com	4.91%	2
3	Totaltravel.com	www.totaltravel.com	3.00%	4
4	Stayz	www.stayz.com.au	2.79%	3
5	Booking.com	www.booking.com	2.34%	5
6	ExplorOz - 4WD Australia	www.exploroz.com	1.57%	6
7	ninemsn Travel	travel.ninemsn.com.au	1.48%	10
8	HotelClub	www.hotelclub.net	1.39%	7
9	Hotels.com	www.hotels.com	1.33%	8
10	Australian Explorer	www.australianexplorer.com	1.30%	9

Airlines

Rank	Website	Domain	Percentage of Visits	Previous Position
1	Qantas Airways	www.qantas.com.au	22.60%	2
2	Virgin Blue	www.virginblue.com.au	20.24%	1
3	Jetstar Airways	www.jetstar.com	16.97%	3
4	Tiger Airways	www.tigerairways.com	6.62%	4
5	AirAsia	www.airasia.com	5.63%	5
6	Emirates	www.emirates.com	2.80%	6
7	Singapore Airlines	www.singaporeair.com	2.65%	7
8	Vaustralia	www.vaustralia.com.au	1.78%	9
9	Air New Zealand - Australia	www.airnz.com.au	1.78%	8
10	Air New Zealand	www.airnz.co.nz	1.69%	10

Travel search terms

Rank	Search Term	Percentage of Search	Percentage Paid	Percentage Organic	Previous Position
1	google maps	1.44%	38.38%	61.62%	1
2	virgin blue	0.91%	44.96%	55.04%	2
3	jetstar	0.88%	1.89%	98.11%	3
4	qantas	0.79%	1.39%	98.61%	4
5	webjet	0.63%	0.30%	99.70%	6
6	flight centre	0.51%	51.83%	48.17%	8
7	maps	0.50%	41.68%	58.32%	7
8	wotif	0.49%	0.00%	100%	10
9	where is	0.48%	0.19%	99.81%	9
10	tiger airways	0.47%	3.83%	96.17%	-

NB: Data courtesy of Experian Hitwise

TLabs focus on startups featuring TaxiPal from Estonia.

Who and what are you (including personnel and backgrounds)?

TaxiPal is a spin-off project from T+1 Solutions, an Estonian R&D and technology solution provider founded by Raoul Järvis. In the summer of 2009 three other key people were brought in: Gunnar Läll, Aap Hirvesoo and Priit Penjam. They all have a long-time executive and developer experience in IT from various fields (banking, R&D, fund management, mobile services, web portals, etc.)

In addition to them there are four developers working on the project.

What financial support did you have to launch the business?

Our startup is self-financed. It was the goal from the very beginning to reach launch-readiness and first paying clients with only our own funding. A significant role have also the NAVTEQ map licenses that were received as part of the Grand Prize at NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge that T+1 Solutions won last year.

What problem are you trying to solve?

TaxiPal helps the user to answer one of life’s frequently asked question, such as “Where can I get a taxi?” It’s easy to answer when you are at home, but what if you are travelling and need a taxi in another city? Or even if you happen to know the taxi phone number it might be difficult to tell the dispatcher where you are because of the language barriers.

TaxiPal’s Local Taxis service provides location aware list of local taxi companies, their tariffs, ratings and supported payment methods. And with TaxiPal’s Direct Order feature the user can order a local taxi without making a phone call.

It will also help to avoid illegal taxis and over-charging by dishonest drivers.

Describe the business, core products and services?

TaxiPal is actually a full end-to-end solution for the taxi industry, covering everything from the free end-user mobile application to the cost-effective fleet management solution for the taxi company. TaxiPal can also be integrated with taxi companies’ existing fleet management systems, meaning that their existing investment does not need to be replaced. TaxiPal adds a new sales channel to companies’ existing processes, brings them more customers and provides direct feedback from end-users about service quality. Our fleet management solution provides a cost-effective means for taxi companies to optimize their fleet operations.

Who are your key customers and users at launch?

• B2C: Our end-users are people who at least occasionally use taxi services either at home town or when travelling. For example, business travellers are one of our target end-user groups.
• B2B: Any taxi company, big or small, that would be interested in adding a new sales channel, being more visible and accessible to new customers, mainly travellers. Also companies who would like to use GPS technology to better manage their fleet and optimize their business processes.

Did you have customers validate your idea before investors?

TaxiPal (initially bearing a project name Taxi4me) won the prestigious NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge® 2009 Grand Prize for the Americas region and also the overall global title Global LBS Challenge CHAMPION 2009. Since the winner selection was done by a very distinguished panel of judges comprised of executives from leading wireless and technology companies, the winning gave quite a strong validation of our idea.

• Global LBS Challenge Grand Prize
• NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge CHAMPION
• TaxiPal also won the Mobile Premier Award in Innovation from the MobileMonday community in Barcelona during Mobile World Congress 2010 in February

What is the business AND revenue model, strategy for profitability?

The service is free for the end users. There is a fee for taxi companies for being part of our network; the fee depends on the service package (feature-set) they use. We are also able to show location and time specific advertising to our end users.

SWOT analysis – strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats?

In-depth analysis and strategy is available to interested investors.

Who advised you your idea isn’t going to be successful and why didn’t you listen to them?

Nobody, even the biggest pessimists about our idea, have disagreed with us after seeing our presentation and explanation of the processes. It’s a truly win-win service for everybody.

What is your success metric 12 months from now?

100 000 end-users and the Direct Order feature being available in all bigger European cities.

TLabs Showcase is part of the wider TLabs project from Tnooz.

To be featured as a startup in TLabs Showcase or to demonstrate a new product, email Tnooz for more details.

Ahead of the Tnooz-run PhoCusWright Bloggers’ Summit panel sessions at ITB, we would like to gauge opinion from readers to the following questions.

Question One:

Question Two:

Question Three:

Question Four:

NB: This poll will be reproduced on-stage during the Bloggers’ Summit workshops in Berlin on Thursday 11 March 2010.

Most popular travel websites in the US for the week ending March 6 2010:

Agency

Rank	Website	Domain	Percentage of Visits	Previous Position
1	Expedia	www.expedia.com	15.23%	1
2	Travelocity	www.travelocity.com	8.52%	3
3	priceline.com	www.priceline.com	8.22%	2
4	Orbitz	www.orbitz.com	6.95%	4
5	Yahoo! Travel	travel.yahoo.com	5.20%	5
6	Hotwire	www.hotwire.com	4.97%	6
7	cheapoair.com	www.cheapoair.com	4.25%	7
8	bookingbuddy	www.bookingbuddy.com	3.55%	8
9	Kayak	www.kayak.com	3.34%	9
10	Cheap Tickets	www.cheaptickets.com	3.21%	-

Destinations and Accommodation

Rank	Website	Domain	Percentage of Visits	Previous Position
1	TripAdvisor	www.tripadvisor.com	6.16%	1
2	Hotels.com	www.hotels.com	2.60%	3
3	Best Western International	www.bestwestern.com	2.55%	2
4	InterContinental Hotels Group	www.ichotelsgroup.com	2.31%	5
5	Marriott International	www.marriott.com	2.25%	4
6	Walt Disney World	disneyworld.disney.go.com	1.59%	7
7	Hilton Hotels Online	www.hilton.com	1.52%	8
8	Carnival Cruise Lines	www.carnival.com	1.44%	6
9	Vacation Rentals by Owner	www.vrbo.com	1.41%	9
10	BookIt.com	www.bookit.com	1.28%	-

Airlines

Rank	Website	Domain	Percentage of Visits	Previous Position
1	Southwest Airlines	www.southwest.com	20.92%	1
2	Delta Air Lines	www.delta.com	13.45%	2
3	American Airlines	www.aa.com	9.47%	3
4	JetBlue Airways	www.jetblue.com	7.02%	5
5	Continental Airlines	www.continental.com	6.33%	4
6	AirTran Airways	www.airtran.com	5.82%	6
7	United Airlines	www.united.com	5.18%	7
8	US Airways	www.usairways.com	3.96%	8
9	Allegiant Air	www.allegiantair.com	3.39%	9
10	Spirit Airlines	www.spiritair.com	3.00%	-

Travel search terms

Rank	Search Term	Percentage of Clicks	Percentage Paid	Percentage Organic	Previous Position
1	mapquest	2.77%	6.71%	93.29%	1
2	mapquest driving directions	1.47%	1.45%	98.55%	2
3	google maps	1.18%	3.81%	96.19%	3
4	maps	0.86%	6.39%	93.11%	4
5	southwest airlines	0.74%	11.10%	88.90%	5
6	google earth	0.53%	6.52%	93.48%	7
7	map quest	0.53%	0.18%	99.82%	6
8	expedia	0.46%	27.63%	72.37%	8
9	travelocity	0.43%	26.28%	73.78%	-
10	cheap flights	0.41%	28.18%		10

NB: Data courtesy of Experian Hitwise

Fiverr is a simple concept, attracting a fair amount of attention in the online tech media mostly for its ease-of-use although its quirkiness has to be a factor.

The site allows users to buy, sell and rate services via the web – but only ever charges the end user $5.

It covers everything from the practical (”I will set up and secure your PC for $5″) to the topical but rather surreal (”I will create an Avatar movie portrait from your picture for $5″).

Interestingly, it also has a sizeable amount of travel-related things for sale as well.

Here are some of those listed on the site:

• I will tell you the best ancient sites to visit if you’re going on holiday to Egypt for $5.
• I will recommend hotels, coffee shops and fun things to do in Amsterdam for $5.
• I will give you a detailed write-up of how we’ve gotten our 5yo and 3yo to travel on airplanes without hassles, tears or tantrums for $5.
• I will give you travel tips about Buenos Aires for $5.

So a travel company or hotel shifting 50,ooo+ travellers a year might not be attracted to spending its time and effort on getting involved in something like Fiverr, but those at the sharper and lengthier end of the Long Tail of tourism might be.

From a commercial perspective (and those wondering how Fiverr makes any money), each seller pays the site $1 as a brokerage fee.

Most popular travel websites in the UK for the week ending March 6 2010:

Agency

Rank	Website	Domain	Percentage of Visits	Previous Position
1	Expedia.co.uk	www.expedia.co.uk	8.22%	1
2	Thomson	www.thomson.co.uk	8.22%	2
3	lastminute.com	www.lastminute.com	5.49%	3
4	Thomas Cook	www.thomascook.com	5.22%	4
5	TravelRepublic.co.uk	www.travelrepublic.co.uk	3.48%	5
6	First Choice	www.firstchoice.co.uk	2.80%	7
7	Cheapflights.co.uk	www.cheapflights.co.uk	2.79%	6
8	travelsupermarket.com	www.travelsupermarket.com	2.23%	8
9	skyscanner	www.skyscanner.net	2.19%	9
10	on the Beach	www.otbeach.com	2.02%	10

Destinations and Accommodation

Rank	Website	Domain	Percentage of Visits	Previous Position
1	tripadvisor.co.uk	www.tripadvisor.co.uk	6.79%	1
2	Booking.com	www.booking.com	4.51%	2
3	LateRooms.com	www.laterooms.co.uk	2.86%	4
4	TripAdvisor	www.tripadvisor.com	2.77%	3
5	Travelodge UK	www.travelodge.co.uk	2.52%	5
6	Premier Inn	www.premiertravelinn.com	1.68%	6
7	InterContinental Hotels Group	www.ichotelsgroup.com	1.33%	7
8	Hotels.com	www.hotels.com	1.29%	8
9	Owners Direct	www.ownersdirect.co.uk	1.09%	9
10	Holiday Lettings	www.holidaylettings.co.uk	1.07%	10

Airlines

Rank	Website	Domain	Percentage of Visits	Previous Position
1	easyJet.com	www.easyjet.co.uk	20.68%	1
2	Ryanair	www.ryanair.com	15.98%	2
3	Flybe	www.flybe.com	8.02%	3
4	British Airways	www.britishairways.com	7.88%	4
5	bmibaby	www.bmibaby.com	4.82%	5
6	Jet2.com	www.jet2.com	4.12%	7
7	Virgin atlantic	www.virgin-atlantic.com	3.60%	6
8	Monarch.co.uk	www.flymonarch.com	3.49%	8
9	Thomson Airways	www.thomsonfly.com	2.71%	9
10	KLM Royal Dutch Airlines	www.klm.com	2.05%	10

Travel search terms

Rank	Search Term	Percentage of Clicks	Percentage Paid	Percentage Organic	Previous Position
1	easyjet	0.85%	12.76%	87.24%	1
2	ryanair	0.80%	1.66%	98.34%	2
3	google maps	0.70%	39.24%	60.76%	3
4	thomas cook	0.62%	2.51%	97.49%	4
5	aa route planner	0.57%	2.11%	97.89%	5
6	national rail	0.45%	0.23%	99.77%	6
7	train times	0.45%	0.55%	99.45%	7
8	travelodge	0.41%	26.79%	73.21%	8
9	multimap	0.38%	20.14%	79.86%	9
10	tfl	0.32%	0.12%	99.88%	-

NB: Data courtesy of Experian Hitwise

What you missed on Tnooz this week, Sunday 28 February to Saturday 6 March 2010:

Top three most commented articles this week:

• Orbitz founder Katz takes circuitous route to metasearch-engine NexTag
• Hotel door opening technology moving to mobile devices
• Shotgun or laser – the truth about looking for travel tech jobs

Controversial topic of the week:

• Are online travel agency schemes just new ways of feeding bananas to the gorilla?

Timewaster of the Week:

• European flights now live and with amazing detail on a Google map

From TLabs:

• TLabs Showcase – GetYourGuide
• TLabs Showcase – TripSourcing

And the rest (most recent first):

• Peter Jackson reveals winner of New Zealand tourism film prize
• GDS Bitesize – service news, agreements, products from Amadeus, Travelport and Sabre
• Hong Kong Travel Site Crunch: Data Week End February 27 2010
• Ctrip may go shopping for acquisitions too
• TSA expands naked scanners, swabbing at checkpoints, boarding areas
• Are Priceline, Expedia battling over acquisition warchests?
• Wyndham credit-card breach occurred during security upgrade
• TripIt pledges faster development work and marketing with new funds
• Tourism groups concerned about broadband infrastructure
• Expedia beefs up web advertising plans across Europe
• American Airlines-HP sign Jetstream contract
• Orbitz adds Gerstner to board, makes Ebookers shortfall payments
• GDSs unite for aid scheme, Bill Clinton, Spike Lee and Samuel L Jackson approve
• Travelscream to release iPhone app for hotel ancillary services
• Ebookers moves alongside European rivals and axes hotel charges
• Priceline offers a bounty — no, not on the Travelocity Roaming Gnome
• SimonSeeks plots next stage, marketing campaign expected
• Super Bowl-advertising HomeAway goes downfield for BedandBreakfast.com acquisition
• Australia Travel Site Crunch: Data Week End February 27 2010
• Continental Airlines hopes to get a leg up with fees for premium seats
• Will Priceline come back to the field?
• Poll says Americans, Europeans don’t shy away from airport body scanners
• PlanetEye and TripTelevision seal video and geo-tagging partnership
• No proposed change to BBC ownership of Lonely Planet
• BootsnAll joins ranks of sites pledging to boost travel writing
• Rolling Bitesize Job News – latest appointments, moves, restructures
• WeJustGotBack Consulting advising DMOs, CVBs, hotels on e-marketing for family travel
• US Travel Site Crunch: Data Week End February 27 2010
• TripIt maps employee travel with TripIt Groups
• Transparency a bugaboo at pest-control conference for hotels
• WorldMate gets new CEO, pushes mobile deals with airlines, GDSs, hotels
• UK Travel Site Crunch: Data Week End February 27 2010
• Travel illness doctor launches mobile app after book success
• AirTran poised to drive direct traffic via American Express deal
• Continental sends important email blast, recipients around the world confused
• Rearden Commerce claims better mobile-mashup
• When travel technology companies also turn into marketing firms – Travelport and Avvio
• SeaWorld posts video tribute to trainer

Previous Week in Travel Tech:

• February 21-27 2010
• February 14-20 2010
• February 7-13 2010
• January 31-February 6 2010
• January 24-30 2010
• January 17-23 2010
• January 10-16 2010
• January 3-9 2010
• December 27-January 2 2010
• December 20-26 2009
• December 13-19 2009
• December 6-12 2009
• November 29-December 5 2009
• November 22-28 2009
• November 15-21 2009
• November 8-14 2009
• November 1-7 2009
• October 25-31 2009
• October 18-24 2009
• October 11-17 2009
• October 3-10 2009

Notices:

• Tnooz #tcamp3 at PhoCusWright@ITB
• Tnooz Nodes – profiles, RSS feeds and Twitter links

Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson has announced Argentinian amateur film-maker Andres Borghi has won Tourism New Zealand’s web-led search for a new promotional video.

Borghi’s three-minute Working Day clip was selected by Jackson following a four-month competition which saw over a 1,000 wannabe directors submit ideas for a screenplay to extol the virtues of New Zealand.

Following the launch of the Your Big Break campaign in November 2009, submission process and 60-second video pitches, a panel of Academy Award-winning producers, editors and film-makers created a shortlist of five entries.

Each director was then invited to New Zealand to shoot and edit their screenplays into three-minute clips with a NZ$100,000 budget, including use of Jackon’s post-production facilities in Wellington.

The entire process was catalogued on the Your Big Break blog, including interviews and clips from the five finalists.

Jackson in Los Angeles for the 2010 Oscars and to announce the winner of the Your Big Break competition, said:

“This short film stood out as a fresh and original piece of storytelling. I loved the whismical way it showcased the natural beauty of our country; its humour kept the viewer engaged and entertained from beginning to end.

“Most importantly it made you want to see more of the stunning landscapes of New Zealand. I was particularly impressed by the director’s use of camera, the editing and the strong visual story-telling. This was an extremely accomplished piece of filmmaking.”

Most popular travel websites in Hong Kong region for the week ending February 27 2010:

Agency

Rank	Website	Domain	Percentage of Visits	Previous Position
1	Ctrip.com	www.ctrip.com	10.84%	1
2	China Travel Service (Hong Kong) Limited	www.chinatravelone.com	7.97%	2
3	ZUJI Hong Kong	www.zuji.com	6.97%	3
4	Cathay Pacific Holidays	www.cxholidays.com	6.79%	4
5	Hong Thai Travel Services	www.hongthai.com	6.23%	5
6	Wing On Travel	www.wingontravel.com	6.09%	6
7	EGL Tours	www.egltours.com	6.03%	7
8	Priceline Hong Kong	www.priceline.com.hk	4.12%	8
9	Expedia	www.expedia.com	3.00%	9
10	Hong Kong Student Travel	www.hkst.com	2.13%	10

Destinations and Accommodation

Rank	Website	Domain	Percentage of Visits	Previous Position
1	Yahoo! Travel Hong Kong	hk.travel.yahoo.com	11.07%	1
2	Hong Kong Disneyland	www.hongkongdisneyland.com	5.21%	2
3	TripAdvisor	www.tripadvisor.com	4.70%	3
4	InterContinental Hotels Group	www.ichotelsgroup.com	3.40%	5
5	Thailandfans.com	www.thailandfans.com	3.19%	6
6	Agoda Hong Kong	www.agoda.com.hk	2.21%	9
7	Discover Hong Kong (Hong Kong Tourism Board)	www.hkta.org	2.17%	4
8	HotelHK.com	www.hotelhk.com	1.83%	10
9	Qunar Hotel	hotel.qunar.com	1.74%	7
10	Marriott International	www.marriott.com	1.69%	-

Airlines

Rank	Website	Domain	Percentage of Visits	Previous Position
1	Cathay Pacific	www.cathaypacific.com	29.56%	1
2	Qantas Airways	www.qantas.com.au	7.09%	2
3	AirAsia	www.airasia.com	5.87%	3
4	Dragon Air	www.dragonair.com	4.68%	4
5	Cebu Pacific Air	www.cebupacificair.com	4.07%	5
6	Singapore Airlines	www.singaporeair.com	3.48%	6
7	British Airways	www.britishairways.com	2.38%	7
8	Jetstar Airways	www.jetstar.com	2.36%	9
9	Air Canada	www.aircanada.ca	2.25%	10
10	Emirates	www.emirates.com	2.21%	-

NB: Data courtesy of Experian Hitwise