Indulge Your Obsession For Travel Statistics At InfoPlease
Curious to know what the world’s top tourist destination is (France) or find out what the 10 ten honeymoon destinations were in 2007? InfoPlease, the noisy and ad-heavy collection of encyclopedias, dictionaries, almanacs has a page dedicated to a number of interesting travel statistics.
There is some interesting data for travel enthusiasts, information geeks, and travel bloggers, for example:
- The Top 25 Nationalities of Foreign Travelers To The US in 2007
- Average Number of Annual Vacation Hours Per Country
- The World’s Top Tourism Earners
InfoPlease’s travel statistics are a good resource to research your next trip and impress others at parties. FlightStats is another way to use statistics determine the likelihood that a flight, route, or airline will be delayed.
For those of you scared of flying, although the statistics are in your favor, you don’t have to rely on them to ease your anxiety.
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