The market survey on travel-related apps, conducted by AppAnnie, an app market data survey company, finds that downloads of travel-related apps increased by 50% worldwide in the last two years from 2014 to 2016. Times spent for travel-related apps totaled about 900 billion in the world in 2016, about 150 billion longer than 2015. An Android user, for example, spends about 2 hours a day for travel-related apps.
Times spent for travel-related apps by Japanese users increased by about 60% in the last two years. The most downloaded iOS travel app is ‘Waiting time for TDL TDS,’ which was a real time app to know waiting times of attractions in Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo Disney Sea. The most downloaded Android travel app was ‘Yahoo! Map.’
Jalan, a hotel search and booking app, was downloaded a lot, ranked 2nd for iOS and 3rd for Android. Also, Booking.com was ranked 7th for iOS and 9th for Android, and Rakuten Travel 9th for iOS and 8th for Android.
The table below show top 10 popular apps:
