Sustainable Tourism: A Review of Indicators from the UK ONS

A report from the UK Office for National Statistics Tourism Intelligence Unit, last updated on 2026-07-08, details a review and appraisal of sustainable tourism indicators. The review draws on a wide range of examples of such indicators currently in use from international and domestic perspectives. It is designated as supporting material and is published under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking national sustainable tourism policies based on the reviewed indicator examples.
• Designing new sustainability metrics for the tourism sector based on the international and domestic examples cited.
• Conducting a meta-analysis of existing sustainable tourism indicator frameworks referenced in the report.

Strengths

• Produced by the authoritative UK Office for National Statistics.
• Draws on a wide range of international and domestic indicator examples.
• Published under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Limitations

• The description metadata is limited; actual data content and structure require manual inspection after download.
• Row count and file format are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for quantitative analysis.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred from the report text.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics (UK) Tourism Intelligence Unit

Collection Method

Review and appraisal of existing indicator examples.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:34.638192; freshness should be verified.

Geography

International and United Kingdom