Q. Tourism

Tourism

(asked on 16th March 2018) - View Source

Questioner

Lord Watson of Wyre Forest
(Labour - Life peer)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what information his Department holds on the number of (a) domestic and (b) international tourism visits made to each region of England in each of the last five years.

Answered by

Michael Ellis

This question was answered on 21st March 2018

VisitBritain’s data for this is as follows:

	Domestic overnight trip volume – All trip purposes (Millions)
	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
North East England	4.3	3.9	3.7	3.8	3.3
North West England	14.2	14.0	12.7	13.6	12.0
Yorkshire and The Humber	11.3	10.0	9.5	11.3	9.3
East Midlands	8.5	7.9	7.1	8.0	7.3
West Midlands	8.5	9.0	7.3	8.8	8.9
East of England	9.9	9.0	9.0	9.7	9.5
London	12.2	12.3	11.4	12.9	12.1
South East England	17.9	17.9	16.2	16.8	18.4
South West England	19.7	19.4	17.3	19.7	20.4
Total England	106.5	103.4	94.2	104.6	101.2

	Domestic day visit volume (Millions)
	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
North East England	86	85	72	64	75	82
North West England	196	184	184	183	191	189
Yorkshire and The Humber	162	154	152	138	149	149
East Midlands	128	118	109	112	119	119
West Midlands	147	153	137	131	142	127
East of England	145	151	150	136	140	133
London	362	301	315	322	337	328
Total England	1,226	1,146	1,119	1,086	1,153	1,127

	International trip volume – All trip purposes (Millions)
	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
London	15,461	16,811	17,404	18,581	19,060
North East	427	427	473	576	560
North West	2,311	2,408	2,512	2,674	2,839
Yorkshire	1,092	1,213	1,367	1,290	1,362
West Midlands	1,563	1,841	1,952	2,118	2,196
East Midlands	922	1,066	1,019	1,126	1,334
East Of England	1,946	1,997	2,106	2,192	2,406
South West	2,017	2,199	2,194	2,378	2,501
South East	4,308	4,535	4,647	5,141	5,214
Total England	26,802	28,522	29,823	31,820	32,970

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