Vacationstat is a website designed to provide insights into people’s vacation periods, making it an invaluable tool for planning day trips or booking longer holidays.
For the tourism industry, this tool is particularly beneficial. Businesses can use Vacationstat to predict when they might receive visitors from specific countries or regions. This allows them to tailor their marketing strategies more effectively. For example, instead of launching a nationwide advertising campaign for last-minute deals, they can target specific regions currently on vacation.
Tourists and day-trippers also gain an advantage by consulting Vacationstat before planning a trip abroad. This helps them avoid scheduling their vacation during times when much of Europe is travelling, which can lead to overcrowded destinations.
Knowing the public holidays in different countries is yet another useful feature of the platform.
The inspiration behind Vacationstat
As is often the case, the idea for Vacationstat was sparked by a personal experience. While renting skis in the basement of a big hotel in Mittelberg, Austria, the crowd was so immense that we became curious about which nationalities were on holiday. However, there was no simple way to find this information at a glance. And that’s how the idea for Vacationstat was born.
While many websites track national holidays, bank holidays, and public holidays, Vacationstat offers something unique. It combines these holidays with school vacations, workdays, and common “bridge days”—workdays between holidays and weekends when many people choose to take time off. This combination provides a comprehensive overview of when large groups of people in a country are likely to be on vacation.
Who is behind the website?
The algorithm powering Vacationstat was developed by Livia Lablans, an expert in big data, modeling, and AI applications.
