October 8th, 2008 - Posted by: Powder Monkey
French Ski Resorts a Hit with British Skiers
Search For Data, an online directory spotlighting the web’s premier sites, recently published a list of the top 10 most searched for ski resorts on the net. The company compiled the data by monitoring UK searches for some 400 ski resorts worldwide. French resorts proved popular: Chamonix came out on top and Morzine, Les Gets and Val Thorens also made the top 10. Canadian resorts were also well represented in the popularity poll but I wonder how many British skiers will go transatlantic this winter given that inflated fuel prices have made flying longhaul super expensive.
The full rundown:
1. Chamonix
2. Alta
3. Whistler
4. Morzine
5. Blue Mountain
6. Banff
7. Zermatt
8. Glencoe
9. Les Gets
10. Val Thorens
Searchfordata also observed that September is the month in which UK searches for ski holidays begin to take off and their historical analysis shows a tendency for searches to increase over the coming months, to peak at Christmas and to gradually decrease until the end of the ski season. I’m no statistician but I’m just beginning to dabble with Google Analytics so I do know that visits to the Snowjet site closely mirror this pattern.
What neither Search for Data nor Google Analytics can tell me is how web surfing activity relates to snowfall. We skiers get very excited whenever a snowflake touches the ground and I’d speculate that some of those mini spikes of activity are snow related. I got to test my theory last weekend when the Alps got some unseasonable snow. Sure enough, the appearance of the white stuff coincided with a flurry of activity on Snowjet website. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Tags: Chamonix, Les Gets, Morzine, News from the Alps, Val Thorens
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