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Hitwise has revealed the top ten most popular UK travel websites in 2006 across five verticals - Agencies, Cruises, Destination and Accommodation, Maps, and Transport.

No enormous surprises, but still interesting to see who’s leading the way.

Agencies:

• 1 Expedia.co.uk
• 2 Lastminute.com
• 3 Thomson.co.uk
• 4 Thomascook.com
• 5 Uk.Mytravel.com
• 6 Firstchoice.co.uk
• 7 Cheapflights.co.uk
• 8 Airline-Network.co.uk
• 9 Teletextholidays.co.uk
• 10 Travelsupermarket.com

Cruises:

• 1 POCruises.com
• 2 Cruisedeals.co.uk
• 3 Thecruisestore.co.uk
• 4 Fredolsencruises.com
• 5 Oceanvillageholidays.co.uk
• 6 Princesscruises.co.uk
• 7 !st4cruising.com
• 8 Royalcaribbean.co.uk
• 9 Islandcruises.com
• 10 Idealcruising.co.uk

Destinations and Accommodation:

• 1 Lastminute.com
• 2 Travelodge.co.uk
• 3 Activehotels.com
• 4 Superbreak.com
• 5 Ichotelsgroup.com
• 6 Gumtree.com
• 7 Laterooms.co.uk
• 8 Information-Britain.co.uk
• 9 PremierTravelInn.com
• 10 Tripadvisor.co.uk

Maps:

• 1 Multimap.com
• 2 Streetmap.co.uk
• 3 TheAA.com/travelwatch
• 4 Maps.Google.co.uk
• 5 RP.RAC.co.uk
• 6 Ordsvy.gov.uk
• 7 Maps.UK.ask.com
• 8 Mapquest.co.uk
• 9 UK.local.yahoo.com
• 10 Maps.yell.com

Transport:

• 1 Easyjet.com
• 2 Ryanair.com
• 3 Britishairways.com
• 4 Nationalrail.co.uk
• 5 BMIbaby.com
• 6 Thomsonfly.com
• 7 Thetrainline.com
• 8 Flybe.com
• 9 RAC.co.uk
• 10 Jet2.com

And here are the top ten searched-for brands in the UK (with EasyJet coming in fifth position):

• 1 Ebay
• 2 Bebo
• 3 Argos
• 4 Amazon
• 5 Easyjet
• 6 BBC
• 7 Autotrader
• 8 Tesco
• 9 Ebay UK
• 10 CBBC

Kevin May, editor, Travolution

Original post by Travolution Blogger