Overseas Travel and Tourism, Provisional Results for December 2015

Monday 22 Feb 2016 @ 11:25
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Visits to the UK by overseas residents rose by 5% to 8.5 million in the period October 2015 to December 2015 compared with the same period a year earlier. £5.1 billion was spent on these visits.
UK residents made 13.4 million visits abroad in the 3 months to December 2015 compared with the same period a year earlier, an increase of 10%.
Expenditure on visits abroad by UK residents in the 3 months to December 2015 increased 9% to £7.6 billion compared with the previous year, in line with the increase in visits.

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