| Visits to Travel Portals Increasing in Singapore Market |
Streetdirectory.com and Bezurk Gaining Traction
According to Hitwise, visits to Streetdirectory.com, an online mapping and travel guide, increased by 87% between the months of March 2007 and June 2007 by Singapore Internet users. In a similar trend, Bezurk (www.bezurk.com), a travel search engine for Asia Pacific markets, reached an 8-month high week ending 7 July, 2007, ranking at 9th position within the Travel industry.
Streetdirectory.com has been the leading website in the Travel industry in a 24-month rolling period. The surge in visits to Streetdirectory.com, which offers 3D maps and business search features, indicates a growing demand by Singapore consumers for online services that enhance local mobility.
Bezurk.com is a relatively new service that allows users to compare deals across hundreds of travel websites, enabling direct bookings with Bezurk's partners. The rise in Bezurk.com signals demand for more services enabling cost-effective regional travel.
Key Website Traffic Drivers
Search Engines and News and Media websites played an important role in visits to Streetdirectory.com and Bezurk respectively. While Google Singapore (www.google.com.sg) referred the highest volume of traffic to Streetdirectory.com with 11.35% of visits for the week ending 14 July 2007, Today Online (www.todayonline.com), a daily news website, was the biggest contributor of visits to Bezurk with 45.71% upstream traffic.
Google Maps (maps.google.com) was the website most visited after Streetdirectory.com, indicating that users are also researching other mapping services. Lonely Planet Haystack (haystack.lonelyplanet.com) was the top Travel website users visited after Bezurk, week ending 17 July 2007. As Lonely Planet Haystack offers accommodation recommendations, it indicates a desire by Singapore travellers to receive independent online advice for places to stay.
Regional Destinations Dominate Travel Searches
Search data indicates that Singapore Internet users are likely to research local and regional areas, as opposed to long-haul destinations. Out of the 42,501 search terms that delivered visits to the Hitwise Destinations & Accommodation industry, the top ten queries were 'sentosa', 'singapore zoo', 'genting', 'hotel', 'hotel 81', 'downtown east', 'bintan', 'zoo', 'jurong bird park' and 'hotels in singapore'.
Other destinations in the top 100 included 'phuket', 'bangkok', 'malaysia', 'hong kong disneyland', 'bali', 'costa sands' and 'rasa sentosa'. Given the strong consumer interest in local and regional travel by Singapore Internet users, there is an opportunity for travel operators in other markets such as Australia and New Zealand to increase their share of search in the Singapore Travel Destinations & Accommodation sector.
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| Industry Search Terms Report for Entertainment - Television |
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The following report lists the most popular terms typed into a search engine over the 24 weeks ending 14/07/2007 that resulted in traffic to websites classified by Hitwise within the Entertainment - Television industry. For example, the most popular search term was 'channel news asia' representing 1.32% of all search terms that delivered users to websites classified by Hitwise in the Entertainment - Television industry.
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channel news asia |
1.32 |
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channelnewsasia |
1.20 |
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channel u |
0.61 |
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cnn |
0.59 |
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mediacorp |
0.58 |
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mobtv |
0.57 |
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american idol |
0.46 |
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channel 8 |
0.45 |
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cna |
0.42 |
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| Pizza Hut Singapore - www.pizzahut.com.sg |
Hitwise Singapore reports that Pizza Hut Singapore (www.pizzahut.com.sg) has experienced a market share increase of over 110% during the week ending 14/07/07. The data shows that 10.21% of visits to the Pizza Hut website for that week came from Google Singapore (www.google.com.sg), followed by Yahoo! Singapore Search (sg.search.yahoo.com) with 8.51% and 6.38% from Windows Live Hotmail (www.hotmail.com).
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| Health and Medical - Information |
| This industry includes general information on health and wellness and healthy lifestyle, including online medical help and advice, self-diagnosis, general layperson medical reference. The data below is based on All sites » Weekly rankings for the week ending 14/07/2007 » Ranks by 'Visits'. |
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of traffic to this category was directed at domestic sites.
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Computers and Internet |
59.45% |
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Search Engines |
43.75% |
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Health and Medical |
12.90% |
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Education |
9.13% |
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Information |
8.54% |
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Reference |
7.08% |
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Lifestyle |
5.96% |
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Portal Frontpages |
5.37% |
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Net Communities and Chat |
4.75% |
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Email Services |
4.07% |
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Computers and Internet |
26.92% |
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Health and Medical |
23.84% |
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Information |
15.89% |
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Education |
11.45% |
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Search Engines |
9.41% |
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Entertainment |
9.20% |
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Reference |
8.89% |
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Lifestyle |
8.68% |
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Business and Finance |
7.53% |
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Net Communities and Chat |
7.16% |
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