Tourism

(asked on 16th March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of gross value added has been generated by the tourism sector in each of the regions of England in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Michael Ellis Portrait
Michael Ellis
This question was answered on 21st March 2018

The latest data of regional GVA was for 2013. This data is held by the Office of National Statistics. The results are as follow:

Region

Tourism direct gross value added (£ millions) in regions and nations of the UK in 2013

London

15391.4

South East

8240.2

North West

5799.8

South West

5517.6

East of England

4304.2

West Midlands

3757.6

Yorkshire and The Humber

3244.8

East Midlands

2573.6

North East

1578.0

Total England

50,407.2

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