Domestic tourism trips by purpose Great Britain 2021

Due to the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, tourism in Great Britain was drastically limited between March 2020 and March 2021, resulting in a lack of data collection for that period. With the ease of the travel restrictions, domestic tourist trips in the region gradually recovered. Between April and December 2021, Britons took nearly 45 million domestic overnight vacations, whereas they made over 60 million domestic holiday trips in 2019. By contrast, domestic tourist trips to visit friends and relatives totaled around 43 million between the second and fourth quarters of 2021, surpassing pre-pandemic figures. Overall, the number of domestic overnight trips in Great Britain reached approximately 119 million between April and December 2021.

Number of domestic overnight trips in Great Britain from 2018 to 2021, by purpose

Characteristic	2018	2019	Apr to Dec 2021¹
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Release date

October 2022

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Region

United Kingdom (Great Britain)

Survey time period

2018 to 2021

Number of respondents

60,000²

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

¹ Due to the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, 2020 data is missing, and 2021 figures only refer to the period from April to December. In 2021, the source changed the survey method from face-to-face interviews to online surveys. It then mentioned that these reasons limit the comparability of 2021 data with figures published up to 2019.

² The survey, carried out weekly, asks respondents about overnight trips taken in Great Britain during the previous four weeks. While the annual target sample is 60,000, the number of respondents from April to December 2021 was 47,008. However, the sample size used for trip estimation was lower than the number of interviews, as not every respondent had made an eligible overnight trip.

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