Great Britain domestic overnight trips: latest results
Release date:
29 May 2025
Next release:
Not applicable
(2025 data is published here)
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Notification
Please note that from 2025, reports are available on a monthly basis, providing an overall picture of domestic tourism in England and in Britain, covering volume and value estimates of overnight trips and day visits in one summary. The new domestic tourism reports can be found on this page.
Report highlights
GB Tourist 2024 report highlights for England:
- Domestic overnight trips volume decreased by 10% vs 2023 and by 14% vs 2022.
- Spend on overnight trips in England in 2024 was 5% above 2023 and 3% above 2022.
- Large towns and cities continued to be the most popular destinations in England in 2024 and further increased in popularity in 2024, from 44% share in 2022, 45% in 2023 to 46% in 2024.
- The number of trips with a stay in a ‘caravan / camping / glamping’ reduced vs 2023 and 2022.
- Average spend per trip per person was highest for those who used ‘self-catering property rental’, as these trips tend to be longer.
- Accommodation booking lead times reduced year on year, as fewer trips were booked 2+ months in advance.
- The Family life stage increased their average spend from £248 per trip per person in 2023 to £320 in 2024, as there were more trips without children by those in the Family life stage.
- 28% of overnight trips in 2024 were made by solo travellers, a 3-percentage-point increase since 2023 (+4pp since 2022). This trend in domestic solo travel was also seen in day visits in 2024.
In the below report and data files, you can find further details on regions visited and trip characteristics (including trip purpose, main destination type and main accommodation used).
View the latest report
GB Tourist 2024 report, domestic overnight trips
Access the findings in our deep dive report (PDF), which includes detail on Britain and England domestic overnight trips, sourced from the GBTS.
GBTS 2024 England Annual Tables
Access the tables, which include all key profiling metrics of England domestic overnight trips.
GBTS 2024 Great Britain Annual Tables
Access the tables, which include all key profiling metrics of Great Britain domestic overnight trips.
GBTS, Domestic overnight trips 2024, Topline report
Access the findings in our summary report, which includes detail on Great Britain and England domestic overnight trips.
GBTS, Domestic overnight trips Q4 and Annual 2024, Tables
Access the topline data in our summary tables, which include detail on Great Britain and England domestic overnight trips.
GBTS, Domestic overnight trips, 2022-2024, Pivot
Access detailed data in our pivot tables, which include detail on Great Britain and England domestic overnight trips.
Pre-release access
Pre-release access for the GBTS: Overnight Trips Q4 2024 and 2024 data was provided 24 hours ahead of publication to the following individuals:
VisitEngland: Patricia Yates, Tracey Edginton, Andrew Stokes, Lyndsey Turner-Swift, Louise Bryce, Shivah Jahangir-Tafreshi, Anke Monestel, Rachael Farrington, Charlotte Sanders, Thomas Clues, Dipika Ghose, Pauline Stobbs and James Sandy.
DCMS: Duncan Parish, Ellie Fox, Lata Mistry, Robyn Schaffer, Sarah Lasher and Benjamin Kay.
Supporting documents
Background Quality Report, GBTS Overnight trips 2024
This document provides detailed information about the research methodology of overnight trips from the Great Britain Tourism Survey.
About the survey
The Great Britain Tourism Survey (GBTS) is a national consumer survey measuring the volume and value of domestic overnight trips and day visits taken by residents in Great Britain. GBTS also provides detailed information about trip and visitor characteristics.
The statistics from 2022 onwards below are based on a new combined online survey called Great Britain Tourism Survey and is covering separate modules on overnight trips and day visits. This survey replaced the separate two surveys 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) (PDF, 214.23 KB) 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 Great Britain domestic overnight trips: 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.
