Release

Travel trends: 2017

Release date: 20 July 2018 9:30am

Summary

This edition of Travel Trends does not include the full set of tables. The remainder will be published on 3 August 2018. The accompanying Travelpac (dataset) release will also be published on 3 August 2018. The International Passenger Survey (IPS) is in the process of modernising its data collection approach from data collected on paper forms to an improved method using tablet computers. Tablet data collection was phased in gradually from September 2017 to April 2018 and this transition has required extensive additional data processing and quality assurance.

Publications

Data

  • Travel trends estimates: UK residents' visits abroad

    Annual estimates of visits and spending by UK residents abroad. Also includes data on nights, purpose, main country visited and mode of travel. Breakdowns by length of stay and nationality are covered. In 2019, new methods were introduced for this dataset. The 2009 to 2019 edition supersedes all previous time series editions of this dataset. We advise against using all editions listed before the 2019 edition.

  • Travel trends estimates: overseas residents in the UK

    Annual 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. In 2019, new methods were introduced for this dataset. The 2009 to 2019 edition supersedes all previous time series editions of this dataset. We advise against using all editions listed before the 2019 edition.

  • Travel trends estimates: overseas residents in the UK and UK residents abroad

    Annual estimates of visits and spending for UK residents abroad and for overseas residents visiting the UK.

  • Travel trends: confidence intervals

    Confidence intervals for the Travel trends estimates.

Contact details

Name

Giles Horsfield

Email

socialsurveys@ons.gov.uk

Phone

+44 (0)1633 455731

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