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Improving our travel and tourism statistics: June 2025 update
An article outlining our progress towards planned improvements to our travel and tourism statistics, including official statistics in development.
Overseas travel and tourism, provisional: July to September and October to December 2024
What's in the bulletin?
- Overseas residents made an estimated 10.4 million visits to Great Britain and spent an estimated £10.2 billion in Quarter 3 (July to Sept) 2024.
- Overseas residents made an estimated 9.3 million visits to Great Britain and spent an estimated £7.4 billion in Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2024.
- Residents of Great Britain made an estimated 29.0 million visits outside of the UK and spent an estimated £28.4 billion in Quarter 3 2024.
Datasets related to Leisure and tourism
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Overseas travel and tourism – table of contents
Tool to locate the datasets of Overseas travel and tourism estimates.
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Estimates of overseas residents’ visits and spending
Quarterly estimates of overseas residents’ visits and spending. Also includes data on nights, purpose, region of UK visited and mode of travel. Breakdowns by nationality and area of residence are covered. The Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) versions of this dataset up to 2023 are on a different webpage under the name "Overseas travel and tourism, quarterly".
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Estimates of visits and spending abroad
Quarterly estimates of visits and spending abroad. Also includes data on nights, purpose, country visited and mode of travel. The Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) versions of this dataset up to 2023 are on a different webpage under the name "UK residents visits and expenditure abroad, quarterly".
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Overseas travel and tourism, monthly
Monthly estimates of overseas residents’ visits and spending and visits and spending abroad by UK or Great Britain residents. Also includes data on purpose of visit, area visited by UK residents and area of residence for overseas residents.
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Travelpac: travel to and from the UK
Estimates of international visits with details on traveller age and sex, trip purpose, length, and spending. From the International Passenger Survey (IPS).
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Travel trends estimates: overseas residents in the UK and UK residents abroad
Annual estimates of visits and spending for UK residents abroad and for overseas residents visiting the UK.
Publications related to Leisure and tourism
Statistical bulletins
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Overseas travel and tourism, provisional: July to September and October to December 2024
Estimates for overseas travel and tourism, including visits, spending, number of nights, and purpose of visit. These are official statistics in development.
Articles
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Travel trends
Annual estimates of completed international visits to and from the UK, and earnings and expenditure associated with these visits.
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Young people expect high pay and leisure time from self-employment
As the number of young people working for themselves continues to rise, analysis reveals a gap between expectations and reality.
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Overseas travel and tourism, provisional
Quarterly estimates of visits to the UK by overseas residents, air visits abroad by UK residents and spending estimates by travellers, using the International Passenger Survey and administrative sources of passenger travel covering April to December 2020.
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Holidays in the 1990s and now
Since the 1990s, we're going on more holidays... but they're shorter than they used to be. Explore three decades of changing tourism habits.
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Improving our travel and tourism statistics
An article outlining our progress towards planned improvements to our travel and tourism statistics, including official statistics in development.
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Leisure time in the UK
An article looking at how much leisure time people in the UK take, and how that differs according to various aspects such as age or gender. This analysis gives an insight into the nation’s work-life balance, and also how much people enjoy their leisure time.
Methodology related to Leisure and tourism
Find, compare and visualise statistics about places within the United Kingdom.