London
21st February, 2002

    The ATE website (www.atei.co.uk) has hit new heights with news of record visits registered during the first month of 2002. An incredible 3.67 million page hits were recorded in January, comprising almost 400,000 page views in 68,497 individual user sessions. Each viewer browsed through 5.8 pages on average.

    The largest group of identified visitors, 31.66 per cent, were based in Europe, followed by 23.43 per cent US-based, 1.93 per cent from Asia, 0.2 per cent from Africa and 0.18 per cent from Oceania.

    ATE marketing manager, Heather Turner, responsible for the ATE portal, is delighted by the massive surge in visitors: "Use of the site has been growing at an exponential rate, with traffic for January alone reaching three and a half times the total for the entire 12-month period leading up to the 2001 show and nearly eight times the figure for the whole 2000 show campaign," she said.

    ATE has invested substantial resources in its online portal, which includes exhibition websites for ATEI, ICE, EuroAmusement Show, Visitor Attractions Show, Amuse UK, plus conferences and publications including Eurotechno and Coinslot International, as well as on-line news services, industry personality interviews and interactive debates.

    Heather Turner concluded: "The growing number of visitors to the ATE portal is exceptional and we remain confident of reaching our goal of becoming the number one on-line reference for amusements, gaming and parks professionals."
 

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