Rascasse Audience Intelligence

Booking.com Target Market in South Africa

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Booking.com in South Africa — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Booking.com has an estimated audience of 1,119,643 people in South Africa.

#2among Travel website in South Africa
#43among Brand in South Africa
#56in Travel & Leisure

Booking.com has an estimated audience of 1,119,643 people in South Africa. 55.8% are female, 44.2% are male, average age 39.8. Top brand affinities: Airbnb, Package tour, Travel website, TripAdvisor, Cheapflights.

Top brand affinities include Airbnb, Package tour, Travel website, with strongest over-indexing on Airbnb (2.4× the country average).

Demographically, the Booking.com audience skews more female with an average age of 39.8, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Travelling, Spirituality.

The typical Booking.com fan in South Africa is more female, around 39.8 years old, with strong Travelling tendencies and a notable affinity for Airbnb.

Category: Travel & Leisure · Type: Brand · Subtype: Travel website

The data on this page comes from the Rascasse audience panel and is refreshed monthly from search, social and browsing signals. As of 2026-08-18.

Section 01

At a glance

The key figures that characterise the Booking.com profile in South Africa.

Audience size
1.1M
in South Africa
Gender
55.8%
44.2% male
Age
39.8
average years
Country rank
#673
Brand in South Africa
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

+30%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Customer demographics of Booking.com

55.8% are female, 44.2% are male, average age 39.8.

Fig. 02

Gender split

55.8%
Female
44.2%
Male
Demographic split for Booking.com audience in South Africa
MetricValue
Female55.8%
Male44.2%
Average age39.8
Estimated audience size1,119,643
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 39.8
average years
Age distribution of the Booking.com audience in South Africa
Age bracketShare%
16-1915%
20-2925%
30-3921%
40-4915%
50+24%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

1.2%

of the worldwide Booking.com audience comes from South Africa.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for Booking.com
CountryShare
United States11.2%
United Kingdom10.5%
Germany8.6%
Section 04
Brands and entities this audience over-indexes on, vs. the country average.

Audience interests & affinities

The strongest cross-interests of the Booking.com audience — brands, topics and people combined.

Fig. 07

Top cross-interests, ranked by affinity

Top brand affinities (over-index vs. country average) for Booking.com audience
#·InterestCategoryAffinity×
01Package tourTravel & Leisure4.66×
02Tour operatorTravel & Leisure4.23×
03CheapflightsTravel & Leisure4.16×
04SkyscannerTravel & Leisure4.14×
05TrivagoTravel & Leisure4.10×
06ExpediaTravel & Leisure3.98×
07TripAdvisorTravel & Leisure2.66×
08Travel websiteTravel & Leisure2.60×
09AirbnbTravel & Leisure2.40×
10GovernmentPolitics & Society2.35×
11Wildlife SafariTravel & Leisure2.25×
12Holiday cottageTravel & Leisure2.14×
13GlampingTravel & Leisure2.02×
14EcotourismBusiness & Career1.90×
15Travel AdventuresTravel & Leisure1.74×
16TravelstartTravel & Leisure1.70×
17LodgingTravel & Leisure1.67×
18Boutique hotelTravel & Leisure1.61×
19Kruger National ParkTravel & Leisure1.56×
20Safari lodgeTravel & Leisure1.53×
Section 05
Top six personality traits over-indexed by this audience (1.0 = country average).

Personality of the Booking.com audience

Values above 1.00× are above the country average, values below 1.00× below it.

Fig. 08

Deviation from the national baseline

What stands out
The strongest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Booking.com audience · What stands out
TraitClusterDeviationScore
TravellingTHRILL1.29×
SpiritualityBALANCE1.12×
Healthy LifestyleBALANCE1.10×
1.00× baseline
Rather not
The weakest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Booking.com audience · Rather not
TraitClusterDeviationScore
Social Media UsageJOY0.82×
PatriotismCONSERVATISM0.93×
Healthy LifestyleBALANCE1.10×
1.00× baseline
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How to read this data

Audience size is the estimated number of people in South Africa who actively search for Booking.com. Affinity is an over-index ratio: 2.0× means the audience is twice as likely to engage with that brand or trait as the country average. Reach is the estimated number of audience members in a region. Regional and brand-affinity tables are sorted from strongest signal to weakest.

About this audience profile

This audience profile is generated by Rascasse from anonymized search-behavior signals across South Africa. For methodology see methodology. Affinity values are over-index ratios vs. the country average (1.0 = baseline). Audience sizes are estimated, not measured.

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