Where do Tourist Go

Interesting Numbers but you made a minor math mistake:

0.0023 = 0.23% not 0.0023%, which can be a significant difference.

Even at 0.23% it is still very low but no surprising. If you think about the actual amount of "real travelers" versus tourists it makes sense. If they were all "real travelers" their would be no cheap, good rooms for us!

Tourists do have some uses. They are good reminders of why not to go home, they "force" the locals to have some English knowledge which makes travel easier, and they make it easy to tell when we are in the expensive area.

Cheers,

Bobby
http://www.traveladdict.org

Not correct Bobby, there is no way 23 percent of cities are tourist cities in any country and there is no way 23 percent of all hotel are in Hotel Booking sites as of now.

.23 is 23 percent, I hope some reader will clarify.

There are 6.5 Million cities in the world and about 15,000 at max in the majority of Hotels Sites.

Hi Mr. Andy,
I think maybe Im looking at it a bit different. The current internet cities offering is 15000 cities. Figuring in the HoboHidOut.com Effect, the difference, or the change, or the hopeful offering will be... 6500000 - 15000 = 6485000 (increase in outcome). Then it becomes 6485000 is what percent of the original 15000.
6485000 = 15000(x)
6485000/15000 = X
x=432.333 times increase or 43,233.3% increase in number of cities. Ild say HoboHideOut would have some bragging rights for sure.

Currently, using your figures the 1500 represent less than a quarter of 1 percent.
You reckon Lonely Planet may be looking over it shoulder soon?

Cornbread

1 city in 423 is represented by the average Hotel booking site. Nonetheless, I estimate there are about 25-30 Million Hotels on the planet and the average site will recommend at maximum 40,000.