Spain, UK Topped List of New Year’s Getaways

Travel comparison website, travelsupermarket.com, monitored search trends for users researching an escape for the New Year festivities and discovered that the favorite destination for online consumers was Spain, accounting for a quarter of the flight searches.

Flights to Hispanic destinations received 69 percent more searches than their nearest rival: domestic flights. For hotels the leading destination was the UK, with of 41 percent of the total searches.

After searches for London, the top UK cities were Edinburgh (7 percent of the total hotel searches) and Glasgow (2 percent of hotel searches) suggesting that most online consumers were looking for Scottish style celebrations.

Other top cities for hotel searches were Blackpool, Manchester, Newcastle and Leeds, implying that web users were looking to head north to enjoy their New Year in Britain’s good-time cities. British hotels beat Spain into second place by 61 percent, with France in third place with 53 percent fewer searches than Spain.