Name: Spending on domestic and outbound vacations in Europe 2018, by country
Creator: Statista

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Residents of Germany spent the most on holidays, leisure and other recreational trips in 2018. Almost 85 billion euros was spent on vacation and leisure trips abroad, and an additional 27 billion on trips within Germany.

Annual expenditure of EU residents on domestic and outbound vacation/leisure trips in 2018, by country of residence* (in million euros)

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March 2020

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Region

Europe, EU

Survey time period

2018

Supplementary notes

* Holiday, leisure and recreation trips lasting one night or over.
Countries include those part of the EFTA that provided data to the source.
** Domestic data for Luxembourg has low reliability.

Figures have been rounded.

The source adds the following information: "Number of tourism trips: All tourism trips made by residents, aged 15 or over, for personal or professional/business purpose, with at least 1 overnight stay.
Expenditure: The total consumption expenditure made by a visitor or on behalf of a visitor for and during his/her trip and stay at destination.
Total expenditure (TOTAL) is broken down by following expenditure items:
Transport
Accommodation
Food and drinks in cafés or restaurants (to report separately on an optional basis, if not, it should be included under 'other expenditure')
Other expenditure.
Expenditures for durable and valuable goods are also available, but are not included in the total expenditure."

Data coverage corresponds to code tour_dem_tttot of unit G3 (Short-term business statistics and tourism).