Overseas visits from the UK fall

Britain’s Office of National Statistics has published figures that show the number of overseas trips taken by people from the UK fell sharply in 2010.  Whilst the numbers are only to the end of November, December will see a further substantial fall due to problems associated with the unusual adverse weather conditions.  Business travel was down 6% to 6.7m in the same period and foreign holiday trips taken by UK residents totalled 36.3m, a fall of 7%.

During the 12 months to November 2010, the number of visits by overseas residents to the UK remained broadly the same when compared with the 12 months to November 2009, at 29.8m.  From Europe the numbers were up just 1% from 22m, 22.2m, North America down 6% from 3.5m to 3.3m and with other parts of the world increasing 2% from 4.2m to 4.3m.  Visits for business reasons increased 4% and holiday visits increased 2% with visits to friends and relatives falling 4%. www.statistics.gov.uk

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