UNITED KINGDOM

NOTE: Please interpret with caution. For the full data set, including metadata and footnotes, please refer to the
UNWTO Database and the Methodological Notes to the UNWTO Database, available through the UNWTO website.

INBOUND TOURISM
Total Arrivals
Overnight (tourists)
40,000 ● ●
●
●

●
●
●
● ●
30,000
●
Arrivals (thousands)

20,000

10,000

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Year

Arrivals by Mode of Transport Arrivals by Main Purpose

Percent Percent

24.8 22.7

72.9
78.7 35.9
36

12.6 39.1 41.4

10.4
14.5 10.9

2010 2019 2010 2019

Year Year

Air Land Water Business Other Personal Vacation

 DOMESTIC TOURISM
Total Domestic Trips
Overnight (tourists)
● ● ●
● ● ●
● ● ●
●

100,000
Trips (thousands)

50,000

0
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Year

Domestic Accommodation Totals

● ● ● ● ●
● ● ● ●
●
100,000
Thousands

50,000 ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●

0
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Year

● Hotels (and similar) Guests ● Total Guests

OUTBOUND TOURISM
Total Departures
Totals (tourists and visitors)
●
●
●
Departures (thousands)

●
●
75,000 ●
● ●
●
●

50,000

25,000

0
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Year
 EXPENDITURE

Total Expenditure: Travel and Passenger Transport

50000
Millions of USD

50000

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

OUTBOUND − Travel INBOUND − Travel

Total Expenditure: Travel only

No information has been provided on the disaggregation

of Travel expenditure for the 2010−2019 period.
 TOURISM INDUSTRIES
Total number of establishments
Line indicates the total reported
●
300,000 ● ●
●
●
● ● ●
●

Accommodation
200,000
Food and Beverage
Other
Passenger Transport
100,000
Travel Agencies

0
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Year

Total number of rooms and bed places

In Units
● ● ●

●
1,500,000
● ●

1,000,000 ● Number of bed places

● ● ●
●
● ● Number of rooms
●

500,000

0
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Year

EMPLOYMENT
Number of full−time equivalent jobs
Line indicates the total reported
●
● ●
●
● ●

2,000
Thousands

Employees − Female
Employees − Male
Self−employed − Female
1,000
Self−employed − Male

0
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Year
 MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS

Tourism Direct GDP *

As percent of total GDP

4 4
●

●
● ● 3.8
● 3.7 3.7 ●
3.6 3.6
●
3.4 ●
3.3
3
Percent

2010 2012 2014 2016

Year

* The data correspond to Tourism GVA (direct) as a percentage of total GVA. 2014−2017
Break in series. 2017 Revised value

Tourism Expenditure over Total GDP

Inbound and Outbound
2.5 2.5 2.5
2.5 2.4 2.5
2.3
2.3 2.3
2.2 2.2

2.0
1.9
1.8 1.8 1.8
1.7 1.7
1.7
1.5
1.5 1.5
1.4
Percent

Inbound
Outbound
1.0

0.5

0.0

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Year