Overseas visitors to the UK April 2022 to March 2023

FOI ref: FOI-2024-1993

You asked

Please would you be able to provide information under the Freedom of Information Act on:

• Number of visits to the UK by overseas visitors between 1 April 2022 - 31 March 2023
• Please could you provide a definition of overseas visitor for the purposes of this data

We said

Thank you for your query and data request. 

The data you requested on overseas' residents visit to the UK and UK residents' visit abroad are available from ONS website via the following link: 

Estimates of overseas residents' visits and spending in the UK - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk) 

Details of definitions are also available via the following link: Overseas travel and tourism, provisional - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk).

The definition asked for is:

An overseas visitor is a person who, being permanently resident in a country outside the UK, visits the UK for a period of less than 12 months. UK citizens residing overseas for 12 months or more coming home on leave are included in this category. Visits abroad are visits for a period of less than 12 months by people permanently residing in the UK (who may be of foreign nationality).

If you have any questions about this data or would like to request ad hoc data analysis, please contact pop.info@ons.gov.uk.