Overseas Travel and Tourism, Feb 2014
The attached report shows monthly estimates of completed international visits to and from the UK and earnings and expenditure associated with these visits.
Key points
- Visits to the UK by overseas residents rose in February 2014, continuing the pattern noted at the end of 2012 and 2013. The number of visits to the UK in the three months December 2013 to February 2014 was 5 per cent higher than a year earlier.
- Holiday visits to the UK continue to rise and are up 9 per cent in the three months December to February compared with the same months a year earlier.
- Visits abroad by UK residents are up 3 per cent over the past twelve months and their expenditure has increased 5 per cent in the same period.