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Travel Sickness

Fail

The top 5 brands take 100% of clicks, so Travel Sickness is a Fail.

Flapen Score
36
36 / 100
Ranks 1,876 of 2,035 Health & Personal Care niches · −12 vs the category median of 48
Market size
£65K/yr125K searches / yr
90-day growth
+8.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
92%top-5 click share · 5 brands · 9 sellers

Flapen Score

Travel Sickness against its category

The dotted line is the Health & Personal Care average. Past it, Travel Sickness is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

36Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Travel Sickness market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Travel Sickness 125K times last year and spent an estimated £65K. All 5 brands take every click. Demand peaks in Jul–Aug–Sep. Flapen scores it 36 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

10.5% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 125K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 10.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +8.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £65K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
125K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+8.4%
Conversion, latest week
10.5%
Market size, estimated
£65Ka year
Peak month
August3.2× the quietest month
Top search term
motion sickness patches46K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £5.00.

Listings sell for £5.00 on average, from £3.75 to £5.83. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 10K to 13K a year. The average listing sells 1,250 to 1,500 of them. At £5.00 that is £6K to £8K a year per listing.

Average price
£5.00under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£3.75–£5.83
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
10K–13K
Units per listing a year
1,250–1,500
Revenue per listing a year
£6K–£8K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

100% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #24 within Over-the-Counter Medication. It carries 3,104 reviews at 4.38 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
100%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#24in Over-the-Counter Medication
Average rating
4.38 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
3,104per listing
Listings tracked
8

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 0 of last year's 2 launches as successful.

2 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 0 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 42 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
42 months

Products

Top Travel Sickness products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 92% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£10K£20K£29K£39K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

5 falling

Sellers

9

Top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

92%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Hionfurt49%
  • MQ40%
  • Coloroom5%
  • Nacerlary2%
  • Beauylook2%
  • Open — no brand owns it (0%)

Demand

Travel Sickness search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

6K4KSpike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jul, Aug, Sep · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.2×

Search terms

Top Travel Sickness search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • motion sickness patches46K/yr
  • travel sickness patches18K/yr
  • sea sickness patches14K/yr
  • scopolamine patch12K/yr
  • scopoderm patches 1.5 mg hyoscine10K/yr
  • anti sickness patches5K/yr
  • hyoscine hydrobromide5K/yr
  • sickness patches3K/yr
  • motion sickness patch3K/yr
  • seasickness patches for cruises3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Travel Sickness

What buyers praise, what they complain about and why they send it back, from the reviews.

Complain

Functionality-Overall47%−0.41

Did not work

Not any effect

the patches do not work

Value For Money10%−0.07

Waste of money

a waste of money

Was complete waste of money

Sleep Quality4%+0.15

Don't make me sleepy

They don't make me sleepy

Portability4%+0.19

Travel sickness

Size-Overall4%+0.22

Small patches

Love

Efficiency25%+1.64

Effective

Sea sickness patches really work

works really well

Quality-Overall11%+0.62

Excellent product, fantastic results

Great product

Brilliant product

Ease Of Use9%+0.31

Easy to Use

These motion sickness patches are simple to use

since using patches I am in much better place

Advertised Vs Actual Product8%+0.47

Product as described

Does exactly what they say

It has worked as it should

Muscle Pain Relief8%−0.01

These patches seemed to work well for me on a route I always get motion sickness on

Helped with motionsickness

I'm happy to say they really did help control my motion sickness

FAQ

Common Travel Sickness questions

Answered from the same tracked data.