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Number of monthly visits abroad by residents of the United Kingdom from Q1 2024 to Q2 2025 (in 1,000s)

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Release date

October 2025

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United Kingdom

Survey time period

Q1 2024 to Q2 2025

Supplementary notes

* Data is a provisional estimate.

Estimates based on the . Interviews are conducted with passengers arriving and departing from the country and include visits for all purposes, including for vacation, business, study, visiting friends and family, and other leisure purposes. The annual (non-forecast) results are as reported by the .

This statistic is using original data from the Office for National Statistics and includes copyright material from © Crown, licensed under the .

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During the second quarter of 2025, visits abroad from the United Kingdom totaled *million, which was an increase over the previous quarter. However, this figure remained below pre-pandemic levels for the same month. Over the period considered, monthly outbound visits from the UK peaked at around million in the third quarter of 2024.

Tourism in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic turned the global tourism industry upside down, with countries worldwide enacting lockdowns and travel bans to limit the spread of the virus. As a result of the emergency measures, the total number of outbound tourist visits from the United Kingdom declined by ** percent in 2020 over the previous year, then dropped even further in 2021, reaching the lowest figure in a decade. Since then, outbound visitation rates not only recovered but reached a record high in 2024, totaling over ** million visits. However, inbound tourist visits in the UK have not recovered at the same rate, with the 2024 figure around five percent lower than in 2019.

Contribution of travel and tourism to the economy in the UK

In 2024, the total contribution of travel and tourism to GDP in the UK amounted to *** billion British pounds, which was around **** percent higher than before the pandemic. Meanwhile, travel and tourism's total contribution to employment in the UK is significant, with *** million jobs supported by the industry in 2024, which was slightly lower than in 2019.