Release

Overseas travel and tourism, monthly provisional results: December 2015

Release date: 19 February 2016 9:30am

Summary

Monthly results on the number of overseas visitors to the UK, earnings from overseas visits, UK residents visits abroad, and their expenditure.

Publications

Data

Contact details

Name

General and statistical enquiries

Email

info@ons.gov.uk

Phone

0845 601 3034

Changes to this release date

  1. Previous date

    19 February 2016 9:30am

    Reason for change

    Overseas Travel and Tourism - Monthly Release - Provisional Results for December 2015<br> To relieve pressure on the publication schedule.<br> Changed from 11 Feb 2016 to 19 Feb 2016

About the data

Accredited Official Statistics

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  • meet user needs
  • are presented clearly and accessibly
  • are produced using appropriate data and sound methods
  • are managed impartially and objectively in the public interest

Pre-release access list

The phrase 'Pre-release Access' refers to the practice whereby official statistics in their final form, and any accompanying written commentary, are made available to an eligible person in advance of their publication. The rules and principles which govern pre-release access are featured within the Pre-release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008.

Besides ONS staff, the following persons are given pre-release access by the period indicated before release.

The phrase ‘Pre-release Access’ refers to the practice whereby official statistics in their final form, and any accompanying written commentary, are made available to an eligible person in advance of their publication. The rules and principles which govern pre-release access are featured within the Pre-release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008.

Besides ONS staff, the following persons are given pre-release access by the period indicated before release.

Access granted to:

Secretary for State, DCMS, 24hrs
Assistant private secretary for Secretary for State, DCMS, 24hrs
Head of Statistics, DCMS, 24hrs
Communications Officer, DCMS, 24hrs
Policy lead, DCMS, 24hrs
Assistant Statistician, DCMS, 24hrs
Minister for Sport and Tourism, DCMS, 24hrs
Private Secretary for Minister for Sport and Tourism, DCMS, 24hrs

Insight Specialist, Visit Britain, 24hrs
Head of Insight and Research, Visit Britain, 24hrs
Head of Media, Visit Britain, 24hrs
Director Research, Visit Britain, 24hrs