Tourism industry

OS visits to the UK: Thousands - SA

3,110

2018 SEP

Release date:

17 January 2019

Next release:

22 February 2019

Overseas travel and tourism: July, August, September 2018 provisional results

What's in the bulletin?

• There were 3.9 million visits to the UK by overseas residents in July 2018 (3% fewer than in July 2017), 3.8 million visits in August 2018 (3% fewer than in August 2017) and 3.1 million visits in September 2018 (2% fewer than in September 2017).
• Overseas residents spent £2.4 billion on visits to the UK in July 2018 (17% less than in July 2017), £2.8 billion in August 2018 (9% less than in August 2017) and £2.0 billion in September 2018 (19% less than in September 2017).
• There were falls in the numbers of visits compared with a year earlier, and spending by visitors, but it should be noted that both visitor numbers, and spending by these visitors, were the highest ever recorded by the International Passenger Survey in the corresponding three-month period of 2017.