Question reference: S5W-29003
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 11 May 2020
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Current status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 21 May 2020
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many fewer tourists have visited Scotland from January to May 2020 compared with the same period in 2019.
Answer
At present, official data on numbers of domestic and international overnight visitors are not available for the period January – May 2020.
The ONS will publish estimated international overnight visitor numbers for 2019 from its Travel Trends publication on 22 May. These data will be available at: https://www.ons.gov.uk/releases/traveltrends2019
The latest data on domestic overnight visitors, published by VisitBritain, cover the period to December 2019. These data are available at: https://www.visitbritain.org/great-britain-tourism-survey-latest-monthly-overnight-data