2020 data was not available due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. 2021 data excludes the Eurotunnel and the Irish border.
¹ A new weighting system was introduced this year, meaning figures recorded pre- and post-2021 are not directly comparable. Further information can be found here.
² The survey, carried out weekly, asks respondents about overnight trips taken in Great Britain during the previous four weeks. While the annual target sample is 60,000, the number of respondents from April to December 2021 was 47,008. However, the sample size used for trip estimation was lower than the number of interviews, as not every respondent had made an eligible overnight trip.
Figures from before 2024 were taken from previous reports.
The number of tourist visits from China to the United Kingdom rose in 2024 over the previous year, reaching **. However, this figure remained significantly lower than before the coronavirus pandemic, when it exceeded the * mark.
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