Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport written question – answered on 4 June 2018.
Rehman Chishti
Vice-Chair, Conservative Party
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the economic value of tourism to the (a) UK and (b) South East in each of the last five years.
Michael Ellis
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
VisitBritain’s data for economic value of tourism in UK and South East are as follows-
Inbound Tourism
Year | UK | South East |
2012 | £18.6 billion | £1.9 billion |
2013 | £21.3 billion | £2 billion |
2014 | £21.8 billion | £2.2 billion |
2015 | £22.1 billion | £2.2 billion |
2016 | £22.5 billion | £2.2 billion |
2017 | £24.3 billion | £1.68 billion (January-September) |
Domestic Tourism
Year | UK (day) | UK (overnight visits) | South East (day) | South East (overnight visits) |
2012 | £65.6 billion | £23.9 billion | £8.6 billion | £1.6 billion |
2013 | £62 billion | £23.2 billion | £8.1 billion | £1.4 billion |
2014 | £61.8 billion | £22.6 billion | £8.7 billion | £1.6 billion |
2015 | £61.9 billion | £24.8 billion | £7.6 billion | £1.6 billion |
2016 | £63.9 billion | £23 billion | £8.6 billion | £1.5 billion |
2017 | £62.4 billion | £23.6 billion | £7 billion | £2.7 billion |
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No0 people think not
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