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Score Card: Why is Africa Travel Magazine Online a #1 source for many tourism and business topics?

The 'Africa Travel' website - www.africa-ata.org - is a search leader, frequently outscoring official company or government sites with far bigger budgets. Whether it's a hot marketing theme, such as Magical Kenya ... Zambia's The Real Africa, Cameroon's Africa in One Country, or a lesser known topic, we're often in the Top 10. Our wide support for Peace through Tourism, the Adventures in Travel Expo, African Diaspora Heritage Trail, SADC Heads of State Summit, Corporate Council on Africa (CCA), Students for Peace, Miracle Corners, Africa Group and Flying Hospital, is rewarded by outstanding scores in web searches. For a universal topic such as Africa Fashion, we're #1 out of a million plus entries. Our World Scene and Air Highways sites also appear in the Top 20 on many Africa searches, thanks to cross promotion.

We love Google and Yahoo, which shows the many thousands, even millions of entries from which our page(s) scored #1 or appeared in the Top 10. (Aug/Sept 2003 search)

A leading website for Africa searches

Search for the words "Africa Fashion"
#1 on Google and on Yahoo out of 1,340,000
(Our hottest topic on Webtrends)

Search for the words "Africa Scene"
#3 on Yahoo out of 765,000; Google #4
(Others were BBC News and the Sun Times, SA)

Search for the words "Africa Tourism"
#5 on Google and on Yahoo out of 950,000


Search for "African Cultural and Ecotourism"
#1 on Google and on Yahoo out of 12,400

Search for the words "Africa Travel"
#2 on Google and #3 on Yahoo out of 2,750,000
(We've been #1 and are in Top 5 consistently)

Search for “Africa in One Country”
#1 in Yahoo out of 3,240,000; Google #1 and 2


Note: Our site's average length of time per visitor session reached over 15 minutes one week and is currently over 8 minutes. Webtrends research.

A leading website for Travel Trade Events

Adventures in Travel Expo (New York)
#1 on Google and on Yahoo out of 11,300

African Diaspora Heritage Trail
#1 on Google and Yahoo out of 1,930

Peace Through Tourism
#2 on Google and Yahoo out of 357,000.

SADC Heads of State Summit
#1 on Google and Yahoo out of 7,330.

Tanzania Tourism Investment Forum
#1 on Google and Yahoo out of 22,500
Omit the word forum, we're #1 out of 120,000.

FAATIS First Annual African Tourism Investment Summit
#1 on Google and Yahoo (new listing)

Kilimanjaro Marathon
#5 on Yahoo out of 5,120.

Festival de Guinée
#1 on Google and Yahoo out of 2,860

IATOS Adventure Travel
#3 on Yahoo out of 381

Mali Folklife Festival
Yahoo #4 out of 999

Corporate Council on Africa
In Google's Top 10 and Yahoo's Top 20 out of 365,000


Where do our Viewers Live? 1 USA 90% / 2 Canada / 3 UK / 4 Netherlands /5 France / 6 South Africa / 7 Belgium / 8 Austria / 9 Germany / 10 Italy. Webtrends, March 2003

A leading website for African Destinations Promotion

Magical Kenya
#3 on Yahoo out of 16,300; Google #4
Just wait until we start promoting Kenya for the ATA 30th Jubilee Congress

The Real Africa (Zambia)
#4 on Yahoo out of 394,000; Google #6

Kilimanjaro International Airport
#1 on Google and Yahoo out of 9,700

Ethiopia's Holy route
#1, 2 and 3 on Google and #2 on Yahoo out of 6,920
Using the word "historic" route, we're still #2 and 3

Great Cities of Morocco
#1 on Google and Yahoo out of 159,000

Ethiopia: Queen of Sheba's Footsteps
#1 on Google and Yahoo out of 1,270

A leading website for Worthy Causes

Search for the "Flying Hospital"
#1 on Yahoo out of 475,000 ; Google #5

Search for "The Africa Group"
New York ladies helping the poor in many African countries.
#3 on Yahoo out of 2, 960,000 ; Google #4

Search for "Miracle Corners" (New York University)
#1 on Netscape out of 59,900; Google #2

Search for "Students for Peace"
#9 on Yahoo out of 1,490,000 ; Google #10


Web Page Popularity (Webtrends March 2003)

What attracts people to our web site? African Fashion and Shopping have been consistent favorites during the past two years, as has our section on Great Hotels and the Ethiopian Journey series.

In April, "The Cameroon Story" continues to attract the most readers. Hon. Pierre Hele, Minister of Tourism, laid the foundation for this story in 2001 by taking our editors on the most exciting tour one could imagine. His Ministry team of Ebenezer Elimbi, Jean Npombo and Boniface Piga were professional and untiring in their efforts, As a result, we gathered enough material and photos for a series of books in print and CD.

In the Top Entry Pages category, " Guinea, Land of Contrasts" by Muguette Goufrani is our front. Thanks to Hon. Sylla Hadja Koumba Diakite, Guinea's Minister of Tourism, and Mr. Ibrahima Diallo, Tourism Director, Muguette toured the country. She journeyed from the Coastal Slave Route to the Northern Highlands, returning with hundreds of photos and a story that continues to unfold.


Why are our sites a #1 source for aviation, travel, tourism, transportation and business topics?

Operating three "magazine-style" websites requires numerous searches and accurate monitoring to check each site's progress. A combination of Yahoo, Google, and Webtrends works wonders. For example, we're well endowed with over 2,000 pages of news items, photos, stories and profiles on travel, tourism, transportation and economic development. The result? Web trends shows an unusual length of time, from 6 to 15 minutes per average visit session. The second key result is that our sites appear at or near the top on many searches.

Search for Name Recognition

Air Highways
Yahoo #1 out of 484,000

Air Highway
Yahoo #2 out of 1,440,00

World Scene
#3 on Yahoo out of 3,480,000; Google #5
(Only Washington Times beat us)

 

North American Events and Activities

A leading website in searching for Regional Air Shows
Arlington, Wa Fly in
Yahoo #2 out of 10, 400

Abbotsford International Air Show
Yahoo #5, out of 4,710 ; Google #6,7,8

Reno National Championship Air Races
Yahoo #5 out of 4,590

Bellingham, Wa Airfest
Yahoo #2 out of 60 entries ; Google #3

A leading website in searching for Regional Events

Union of BC Municipalities Marketplace
Yahoo #1 out of 2,2000

Adventures in Travel Expo, New York
Yahoo #3 out of 4,740 Google #4

Theatre under the Stars
Yahoo #6 out of 310,000, Google #9

Union of BC Municipalities
Yahoo #4 out of 19,600 ; Google #4

Railfair, California
Yahoo #16 out of 867

A leading website in searching for Regional Attractions

Footloose in Vancouver
Yahoo #1 out of 2,150

Vancouver's Gastown
Yahoo #5 out of 4,660 ; Google #5

Trans Canada Yellowhead Highway
Yahoo #6 out of 2,610 ; Google #8

Train to Whistler
Yahoo #2 out of 43,100

A leading website in searching for Theme Parks and Museums

Railroad Park, California
Yahoo #1 out of 217,000

Canadian Museum of Flight, Langley
Yahoo #5 out of 75,000 ; Google #5
Leave out the word Langley and we're #4 out of 2,600

West Coast Railway Museum
Yahoo #4 out of 73,000

Heritage Park, Calgary
Yahoo #12 out of 58,000

BC Museum of Mining
#17 out of 25,700

A leading website in searching for Aviation Topics

YVR Vancouver International Airport
Yahoo #5 out of 23,000 ; Google #6

Open Skies
One of the most talked about and written about topics in commercial aviation
Yahoo #23 out of 484,000

Journal of Open Skies
Yahoo #1 out of 65,000

Magazine of Open Skies
Yahoo #1 out of 93,500

Flying Hospital
Yahoo #2 out of 475,000 ; Google #2