One company dominates hotel websites ? Top Canada travel sites, July 23 2011

Posted by Tnooz on 26 July 2011

Four of the top five companies in the accommodation category of leading travel websites in Canada are owned by Expedia.

The quartet ? TripAdvisor, Hotels.com, TripAdvisor France and TripAdvisor Canada ? have a 15% share of traffic in the category, with Booking.com in second place managing to attract 5%.

The remaining five sites have a 8% share of the market between them.

Most popular travel websites in Canada for the week ending July 23 2011:

Agency

Rank	Website	Domain	Percentage of Visits	Previous Position
1	Expedia Canada	www.expedia.ca	14.42%	1
2	Flight Network	www.flightnetwork.com	5.49%	2
3	Hotwire	www.hotwire.com	4.87%	3
4	priceline.com	www.priceline.com	3.43%	6
5	Expedia	www.expedia.com	3.11%	5
6	Travelzoo Canada	www.travelzoo.com/ca	2.93%	4
7	itravel2000	www.itravel2000.com	2.70%	8
8	Quebecvacances.com	www.quebecvacances.com	2.54%	9
9	Red Tag Vacations	www.redtag.ca	2.49%	7
10	Orbitz	www.orbitz.com	2.07%	-

Destinations and Accommodation

Rank	Website	Domain	Percentage of Visits	Previous Position
1	TripAdvisor	www.tripadvisor.com	6.43%	1
2	Booking.com	www.booking.com	5.32%	2
3	Hotels.com	www.hotels.com	4.48%	3
4	TripAdvisor France	www.tripadvisor.fr	2.59%	4
5	TripAdvisor Canada	www.tripadvisor.ca	1.99%	5
6	City of Toronto	www.toronto.ca	1.84%	7
7	InterContinental Hotels Group	www.ichotelsgroup.com	1.79%	6
8	Bonjour Quebec	www.bonjourquebec.com	1.51%	9
9	Canada's Wonderland	www.canadaswonderland.com	1.19%	8
10	Sepaq	www.sepaq.com	1.16%	-

Airlines

Rank	Website	Domain	Percentage of Visits	Previous Position
1	Air Canada	www.aircanada.ca	28.84%	1
2	WestJet	www.westjet.com	25.79%	2
3	Air Transat	www.airtransat.com	5.80%	3
4	Allegiant Air	www.allegiantair.com	3.46%	4
5	Porter	www.flyporter.com	2.68%	5
6	acaeronet.aircanada.ca	acaeronet.aircanada.ca	2.59%	8
7	Delta Air Lines	www.delta.com	2.23%	10
8	Air Canada Employee Travel Site	travel.aircanada.com	2.01%	7
9	American Airlines	www.aa.com	1.97%	6
10	Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air	www.alaskaair.com	1.94%	-

NB: Data courtesy of Experian Hitwise

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