Great Britain domestic overnight trips: latest results
Release date:
13 February 2024
Next release:
10 April 2024
For further information, please contact research@visitbritain.org.
Report highlights
Overnight trips in England (Q3 2023):
There were 29.8 million overnight trips (down 5% vs Q3 2022).
These trips lasted a total of 92.3 million nights (down 9% vs Q3 2022).
And contributed a total of £7.8bn in spend (down 10% vs Q3 2022 in nominal terms and down 15% in real terms, when taking inflation into account).
Average spend per trip was £262 (down 4% vs Q3 2022 and down 10% in real terms).
Average spend per night was £85 per night (down 1% vs Q3 2022 and down 7% in real terms).
On average, trips lasted 3.1 nights (down 5% vs Q3 2022).
2023 year to date (YTD) England visits were down 2% on 2022 YTD, with spend up 1% in nominal terms, although down 7% in real terms. The number of nights was down 6% on 2022 YTD.
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
GB Tourism Survey, summary report: Q3 2023
Publication date: 13 February 2024
GB Tourism Survey, pivot tables: Apr 2021-Sep 2023
Explore the data in detail using the pre-built pivot tables in Excel.
Pre-release access
Pre-release access for the GBTS Q3 2023 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, Phoebe Coleman, Robyn Schaffer, Sarah Lasher, Sarah Stannard and Benjamin Kay
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 were 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 guidance on limitations of comparability with data up until 2019.
Fieldwork for 2020 and the first three months of 2021 was impacted by COVID-19 related travel restrictions. Therefore, the 2021 data on this page only refers to April to December 2021. Data up to the end of 2019 data can be found on the GBTS archive page.
The Great Britain Tourism Survey (GBTS) is designated as official statistics 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.
Supporting documents
Background Quality Report GBTS 2022
View this document.