Experimental Official Statistics from the Office for National Statistics, last updated July 2026. The dataset reconciles tourism demand survey data with supply-side industry information to calculate the economic value of tourism. It follows United Nations World Tourism Organisation guidelines to enable comparison with other economic activities and tourism in other regions.
Use Cases
- Benchmarking tourism's economic contribution against other industries based on the TSA methodology.
- Comparing UK tourism value with other countries using UNWTO-aligned metrics.
- Analyzing the supply and demand relationship in tourism-related goods and services.
- Modeling the economic impact of tourism policy changes using reconciled demand and supply data.
Strengths
- Follows United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) guidelines for international comparability.
- Reconciles demand data from tourism surveys with supply-side industry information.
- Designated as Experimental Official Statistics by the Office for National Statistics.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to uk_data sources.
Provenance
- Source
- Office for National Statistics
- Collection Method
- Reconciles demand data from tourism surveys with supply information from tourism-related industries.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:44.545824; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- United Kingdom