Release

Overseas travel and tourism, provisional: July to Sept 2016

Released: 19 January 2017 9:30am
Next release: May to June 2017 (provisional)

Summary

Quarterly results from the International Passenger Survey on overseas residents’ visits to and from the UK, and UK residents’ visits abroad.

Publications

Data

  • Overseas travel and tourism, quarterly

    Quarterly estimates of overseas residents’ visits and spending. Also includes data on nights, purpose, region of UK visited and mode of travel. Breakdowns by nationality and area of residence are covered. This dataset is published quarterly. The versions published for Quarters 1 (Jan to Mar), 2 (Apr to June) and 3 (July to Sept) are on a separate webpage under the name "Estimates of overseas residents' visits and spending".

  • Overseas travel and tourism, quarterly confidence intervals

    Confidence intervals for International Passenger Survey (IPS) quarterly data.

Contact details

Name

Giles Horsfield

Email

socialsurveys@ons.gov.uk

Phone

+44 (0)1633 455678

About the data

Accredited Official Statistics

These are accredited official statistics. They have been independently reviewed by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) and found to comply with the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics. This broadly means that the statistics:

  • 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.

| Access Granted To | Organisation | Period | | :— | :— | :— | | Head ‐ Research & Forecasting | Visit Britain | 24 hrs | | Insight Specialist | Visit Britain | 24 hrs | | Head of Media | Visit Britain | 24 hrs | | Director Research | Visit Britain | 24 hrs | | First Minister | Scottish Government | 24 hrs | | Statistician | Scottish Government | 24 hrs | | Assistant Statistician | Scottish Government | 24 hrs | | Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Tourism and External Affairs | Scottish Government | 24 hrs | | Policy Officer - Tourism | Scottish Government | 24 hrs | | Communications Officer | Scottish Government | 24 hrs | | Special Advisor | Scottish Government | 24 hrs | | Senior Statistician and Head of Business and Energy Unit | Scottish Government | 24 hrs | | Head Of Corporate Communications | Visit Scotland | 24 hrs | | Senior Tourism Insight Manager | Visit Scotland | 24 hrs | | Minister | DCMS | 24 hrs | | Minister | DCMS | 24 hrs | | Private Secretary | DCMS | 24 hrs | | Private Secretary | DCMS | 24 hrs | | Head of Profession Statistician | DCMS | 24 hrs | | Communications officer | DCMS | 24 hrs | | Policy Lead | DCMS | 24 hrs | | Assistant Statistician | DCMS | 24 hrs | | Head of Research | Welsh Government | 24 hrs |