27 Jan 2010

Top 100 Tourism Tweeters

[update: The list got covered over at tnooz.com. Lot's of great comments!]

Ever wondered how many tourism-related twitter accounts are out there? We did.

We searched for approximately 200,000 twitter accounts beginning with the words 'Travel', 'Tourism', 'Visit' and 'Discover' followed by a location (ie: 'Sydney', 'London', 'California', 'Vietnam', etc.). We've unearthed more than 1,400 tourism-related twitter accounts, and the results are quite interesting!

So without further ado, here's our list of top tourism tweeters -

Top 10 Tourism Tweeters

1. TravelPortland (13790 followers, 564 listed)
2. VisitVentura (10046 followers, 67 listed)
3. VisitChicago (8943 followers, 351 listed)
4. TravelPonce (8770 followers, 86 listed)
5. VisitMaine (6688 followers, 275 listed)
6. TravelOregon (5513 followers, 301 listed)
7. VisitSanDiego (4536 followers, 149 listed)
8. VisitVirginia (4059 followers, 239 listed)
9. VisitFlorida (3942 followers, 187 listed)
10. VisitOrlando (3916 followers, 183 listed)
View full list

Top 10 Country-based Tourism Tweeters

1. VisitPeru (3171 followers, 105 listed)
2. TravelEcuador (2798 followers, 61 listed)
3. VisitJordan (2467 followers, 103 listed)
4. VisitNorway (2193 followers, 110 listed)
5. TravelNepal (2001 followers, 22 listed)
6. VisitMonaco (1750 followers, 79 listed)
7. TourismRomania (1706 followers, 0 listed)
8. TravelCroatia (1462 followers, 18 listed)
9. TravelThailand (1346 followers, 4 listed)
10. VisitNepal (1197 followers, 12 listed)
View full list

It's also worth noting that wefollow.com and twibes.com have a number of tourism related twitter groups - these are worth checking out.

Finally - we've published our full list on google docs if you want to dig a little deeper into the results. If you find anything interesting please let us know!

[A few notes - added from reader feedback]

1. This list doesn't include twitter accounts that don't begin with 'Travel', 'Tourism', 'Discover' or 'Visit'. (Feel free to take this data and extend it!)
2. The lists are ordered by the number of followers.