Last week I talked about the “Where I’ve Been” application on Facebook, and how you can use it to see where your friends have been, but curiously also get some great airline deals. What I didn’t mention was that you can find some very interesting travel statistics on here.
Namely, it ranks the most and least popular places to visit, live and want to visit. What’s astounding is this could possibly be the largest travel survey ever done (not to mention a great look into the travel behavior of 20-somethings). The data are from more than 4 million Facebook users.
Here’s a preview: Most popular places to visit: Florida, New York, California; places to live: England, California, Ontario (what?); places want to visit: Australia, Italy, Brazil.
Least popular places to visit: Tonga (a whopping four people), Newfoundland, Zanzibar; places to live (Northern Territory, South Australia, Mauritania; places want to visit: Russian soil (haha), Pemba (never heard of it), and Medeira Islands.