Tourism
(asked on 22nd May 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 estimate he has made of the economic value of tourism to the (a) UK and (b) South East in each of the last five years.
VisitBritain’s data for economic value of tourism in UK and South East are as follows-
Inbound Tourism
Year | UK | South East |
2012 | £18.6 billion | £1.9 billion |
2013 | £21.3 billion | £2 billion |
2014 | £21.8 billion | £2.2 billion |
2015 | £22.1 billion | £2.2 billion |
2016 | £22.5 billion | £2.2 billion |
2017 | £24.3 billion | £1.68 billion (January-September) |
Domestic Tourism
Year | UK (day) | UK (overnight visits) | South East (day) | South East (overnight visits) |
2012 | £65.6 billion | £23.9 billion | £8.6 billion | £1.6 billion |
2013 | £62 billion | £23.2 billion | £8.1 billion | £1.4 billion |
2014 | £61.8 billion | £22.6 billion | £8.7 billion | £1.6 billion |
2015 | £61.9 billion | £24.8 billion | £7.6 billion | £1.6 billion |
2016 | £63.9 billion | £23 billion | £8.6 billion | £1.5 billion |
2017 | £62.4 billion | £23.6 billion | £7 billion | £2.7 billion |