Summary

In this article we put into practice new methods for estimating the value of outdoor tourism in the UK. It will detail total numbers of visits, the activities they took part in and the amounts spent on those activities. It also attempts to break the visits and value up by broad habitat types and provides national and regional breakdowns.

Publications

• Tourism and outdoor leisure accounts, natural capital, UK: 2021

  In this bulletin we put into practice new methods for estimating the value of tourism and outdoor leisure in the UK.

Data

• Tourism UK natural capital

  Physical (non-monetary) and monetary estimates of services provided by natural assets in the UK between 1998 and 2019.

Methodology

• UK natural capital accounts: Tourism - methodology

  Measurement and development of UK tourism natural capital ecosystem service accounts, including the specific methods used to value individual components of natural capital and physical and monetary data sources.

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