South Padre Island named second most popular spring break destination in the world, study says

It's spring break 1988, and Chris Vitale and Dina Boyle, both of San Antonio, check out the crowd on Mustang Island. It's spring break 1988, and Chris Vitale and Dina Boyle, both of San Antonio, check out the crowd on Mustang Island. Photo: San Antonio Express-News Photo: San Antonio Express-News Image 1 of / 71 Caption Close South Padre Island named second most popular spring break destination in the world, study says 1 / 71 Back to Gallery

Spring break revelers who researched their South Padre Island trips using Google helped land the Texas party spot as the second most popular destination in the world for the annual college blowout, according to a recent study.

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TravelMag, a website obviously dedicated to traveling, conducted research using the search engine’s “keyword planner tool” to map out the prime party places in a ranking of 20 that are all the rage. The feature is a scion of Google AdWords, which helps researchers generate analytics on specific queries.

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“South Padre Island Spring Break” and relative terms like “SPI Spring Break” garnered a total of 64,000 searches, 160,000 less instances than No. 1, Panama City Beach, Fla.

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The site developed their list based off February and March 2015 analytics, since spring break 2016 hasn’t kicked off yet.

Other Texas beaches such as Port Aransas, Galveston and Corpus Christi landed in the 15th, 16th and 18th spots respectively.

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