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Have you ever booked a holiday from your mobile?

According to our research more and more of you are using your smart phones to search for, and book your holidays. With everyone’s busy lifestyles these days, the speed and convenience of mobile internet means that you can book a holiday on your phone at the same time as pretty much anything else; doing the shopping, on the train or even when you are already travelling, perfect for booking connecting flights and last minute hotels.

Mobile internet traffic is already huge, mainly due to the use of email and social networking sites. Sites like Facebook, that let you check into places on the go, and let people know who you are with. However, the number of people booking holidays using their phones is still continually growing.

Seeing as we are being provided with a seemingly endless supply of updated iPhones, iPads, and android devices it doesn’t look set to slow down any time soon either. With mobile traffic to the lowcostholidays.com site already up 383% year on year, that is a lot of holidays being searched for and booked whilst people are out and about!
Another surge of mobile internet usage is set to explode with next week’s expected announcement of the new iPhone5.

The increased use of Smart phones has led to a significant rise in mobile content sharing which has sky rocketed the amount of information that is circulating the internet. We found this interesting Infographic from the social media company Popcorn, on what ‘Sixty Seconds of Social Media Sharing Looks Like’

Here at lowcostholidays.com, as one of the top 10 UK travel websites, we are expecting that more and more holiday makers will be using their mobile devices to search for and book their holidays, like cheap ski holidays or bargain summer sun.

When the iPhone 4 launched last June, here at lowcostholidays.com, we saw an amazing 43% increase in iPhone traffic to our site from one month to the next! With traffic to our site from iPhones already up a massive 255% year on year, we’re predicting that even more people will be looking for holidays on their phones with the release of the iPhone 5.

The top destinations searched for from mobile devices over the last 6 months are all Mediterranean based with Malta leading the way followed by Mallorca, Ibiza and Marbella. The popularity of booking these lively resorts through mobile devices could be due to the age of the people using the internet to book holidays on their phones. You can then even share where you are going on sites like Facebook and Twitter, seconds after you have booked!

We know that more of you are using your smart phones to look for holidays so we came up with our amazing, free instant postcard app!

You can download it at the App Store here: