Inbound visits to friends and relatives UK 2020

Due to the coronavirus COVID-19) pandemic, only about 112 thousand visits were made from overseas to the UK to visit friends and family in the second quarter of 2020. The number of inbound visits to relatives and friends declined sharply over the previous quarter when the UK reported roughly 2.2 million inbound visits for this purpose.

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Release date

November 2020

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Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

Q1 2015 to Q2 2020

Supplementary notes

*The source specifies that the International Passenger Survey (IPS) was suspended on March 16, 2020 due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. As of November 9, 2020, interviewing had not yet resumed. Thus, figures from April to June 2020 are based on administrative sources and modelling since no data was collected during this period. Figures for the second quarter of 2020 are provisional and non-seasonally adjusted.

Figures have been rounded.

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