The World Hum Travel Zeitgeist: Bestsellers, Bargains and Tiny Bubbles

Travel Blog  •  Michael Yessis  •  04.20.07 | 8:07 AM ET

This week travelers prowled for bargains, studied French culture, got left behind for hours and mourned the passing of Hawaii’s cultural ambassador, Don Ho. Here’s the Zeitgeist.

imageMost Read Weblog Post
World Hum (this week)
R.I.P. (and Aloha) Don Ho

Most E-mailed Travel Story
New York Times (current)
Online Fares: If It’s Good, Is It Too Good to Be True?

Most Popular Page Tagged Travel
Del.icio.us (recent)
airfarewatchdog 

Most Popular Travel Story
Netscape (this week)
Business Owner’s Guide to Cutting Travel Costs

imageMost Popular Travel Podcast
iTunes (current)
Travel With Rick Steves
* This Week: “French culture 201 for the American traveler”

Top Rated “Your Pick” Video
LonelyPlanet.tv (current)
Istanbul Guerilla Guide
* Lonely Planet TV is still getting up to speed. This video gets the top spot with, as of Friday morning, two votes.

Most Viewed Travel & Places Video
YouTube (this week)
Summer Internship
* It’s a MasterCard promo for a competition to win seven weeks of “globetrotting.”

Top Ranked Video
Travelistic (current)
Storm Chasing with The Knight and Gales

 

Most Viewed Travel Story
Los Angeles Times (current)
Landing of Airbus A380 Jet at LAX Should be Huge
* Um, still? People do love the A380

Most E-Mailed Travel Story
USA Today (current)
British Air Fliers Delayed 13 Hours After Crew Refuses to Fly, Citing Sleepiness

imageTop Travel and Adventure Audiobook
iTunes (current)
Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
* Back-to-back weeks for the 1996 bestseller.

Best Selling Travel Book
Amazon.com (current)
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
* More weeks in a row than we can remember for the 2006 bestseller.

Most Viewed Travel Story
Telegraph (current)
The Costas Turn Chic and Cheerful
* The “understated allure of the boutique hotel” has arrived on the Spanish Costas.

The Google “I’m Feeling Lucky” Button Travel Zeitgeist Search
Spain’s best resorts

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