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Great Britain domestic overnight trips: latest results

Access the latest numbers of domestic overnight trips British residents took, when they took these trips, for what purpose, their total expenditure and the number of nights they stayed.

Release date:

10 April 2024

Next release:

TBC

For further information, please contact research@visitbritain.org.

Note

NOTE: This statistical release contains annual provisional estimates for 2023. This series will now be subject to a methodological review. Following this review, estimates published in this release will change. Please use caution in interpreting or using the provisional figures published here. Please see our Statement on methodological review for more details.

Report highlights

Domestic overnight trips in 2023:

  • The current data show a decline in 2023 overnight trips by 7% for both Great Britain and England.

  • These declines seem to be driven by holiday trips, which dropped by 14% and represent the second largest share of trips (32% in Britain and 31% in England). 

  • On the other hand, UK overnight stays as part of an overseas trip show an increase of 14% in Britain and 19% in England (in line with an increase in outbound trips).

  • In 2023, a city or large town was a destination type with the largest share, 44% in Britain and 45% in England. 

  • 45% of overnight trips in Britain / England included serviced accommodation.

In the below report, you can find figures for Great Britain and further details on regions visited and trip characteristics (incl. trip purpose, main destination type and accommodation used).

View the latest report

PDF

GB and England Domestic Overnight Trips Q4 2023 and 2023

Publication date: 10th April 2024

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Pre-release access

Pre-release access for the GBTS Q4 2023 and 2023 overall data was provided 24 hours ahead of publication to the following individuals:

VisitEngland: Patricia Yates, Andrew Stokes, Lyndsey Turner-Swift, Shivah Jahangir-Tafreshi, Louise Bryce, Tracey Edginton, Charlotte Sanders, Dipika Ghose, Thomas Clues, Rachael Farrington, Anke Monestel, Pauline Stobbs and James Sandy

DCMS: Duncan Parish, Ellie Fox, Heather Monro, Lata Mistry, Robyn Schaffer, Sarah Lasher, Sarah Stannard and Benjamin Kay

Supporting documents

PDF

Background Quality Report GBTS 2023

This document provides detailed information about the research methodology of Great Britain Tourism Survey.

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PDF

GBTS Statement on methodological review (April 2024)

This document provides further information about the GBTS methodological review announced in April 2024.

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About the survey

The Great Britain Tourism Survey (GBTS) is a national consumer survey measuring the volume and value of domestic overnight tourism trips taken by residents in Great Britain. GBTS also provides detailed information about trip and visitor characteristics.

The statistics from 2021 onwards below are based on a new combined online survey that replaced the separate Great Britain Tourism Survey and Great Britain Day Visits Survey that ran until the end of 2019. Take a read of the methodology and quality report (PDF, 215KB) to find out more including more details explaining why the new survey data is not comparable with data up until 2019.

This page is showing only the latest reports and data available. Any previous reports and data, including data up to the end of 2019, can be found  on the GBTS archive page.

The Great Britain Tourism Survey (GBTS) is designated as official statistics, labelled as statistics in development and follows the Code of Practice for Official Statistics (2022) set by the Office for Statistics Regulation.

VisitEngland jointly sponsors the survey with our partners VisitScotland and Visit Wales.