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by s_kilk 3225 days ago
A tiny bit of feedback...

> June – August is slow/unreported season for tourism in Edinburgh, so lodging and other accommodations may cost as much as usual.

This is... odd. In August, Edinburgh has the legendary (Fringe) Festival, a month in which the cities population quadruples, making it easily the most intense month of the year for tourism.

Maybe the dataset requires some manual tweaking?

2 comments

Yeah, you've uncovered one where the average month in Google was not reported. Generally that means few people searching. In a few cases, sadly, that may be because the hotels are all full and there's no point to searching.

As I've said elsewhere, I think the solution to this is better data on travel volume. I have a lead thanks to this thread on some better data, which is very exciting for me and exactly what I was hoping for in HN.

Yeah, this is exactly my point. Knowing what kinds of groups are traveling to a certain area and when would be largely influential.