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Quick Travel Stats

  • In 2021, UK residents made 19.1 million trips abroad
  • The most frequent reason for travel was to go on holiday, closely followed by visiting friends and family (8.92 million and 8.15 million people, respectively)
  • The number of business trips is continuing on its downward trend with 1.36 million trips in 2021 compared to 8.98 million in 2019
  • In 2021, UK tourists spent roughly £15.4 billion abroad. This number has risen from the £13.8 billion spent in 2020 but remains way below pre-pandemic levels
  • Holidaying abroad dropped 80 per cent  between 2019 and 2021. This was largely due to the Covid-19 pandemic and cost of living crisis
  • Spain topped the UK holiday charts in 2019, with 19.5 per cent of UK tourists visiting the country.