All Island Tourism Statistics Liaison GroupCSO releases – HTS, Overseas Travel and PCI

Patsy King24 June 2014

Overseas Travel

• Monthly – up to reference period June 2010• Published detailed country level data • Changed to quarterly release from Q32010

onwards- calendar quarter only• Reduced the level of detail published- fewer

individual countries

Changed to rolling 3 month release

• First period : May – July 2011• Same level of detail as in calendar quarter

releases• Still publish calendar quarter data in release• Timeliness - usually publish within 28 days of

end of reference month

Additional data published

• From Overseas Travel Release Oct – Dec 2013 onwards

• Annual data from 2010 onwards- trips to Ireland

• New country level data for Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, USA and Canada

• New data for Africa, Central, South & Other Americas and Asia & Middle East

Household Travel Survey (HTS)

• Traditionally- quarterly data published• 2010, 2011- annual data only published• 2012 onwards– quarterly and annual data

published• Published Q42013 data – 28/4/2014• Publish Q12014 data – 30/6/2014• Improvement in timeliness (Q12014 - 91 days)

HTS Domestic Travel- extra tables

• Extra tables published from Q22013 onwards• Annual data from 2010 onwards• Table 1b – Trips and nights by region visited by

8 NUTS3 regions• Table 5a – Trips and nights by region of

residence by 8 NUTS3 regions• Table 8a – Expenditure by region visited by 8

NUTS3 regions

HTS Domestic travel – extra table

• Extra table published from Q42013• Annual data – from 2010 onwards• Table 1c – Trips and nights by main county

visited- county level data shown above certain threshold, counties amalgamated below this threshold

Outbound travel – extra data

• Table 9c – Trips and nights data for Belgium, Netherlands and Poland- annual data- published from Q22013 onwards

• Table 16 – New table – quarterly and annual data- published from Q12013 onwards

• Table 16 – Expenditure by country/region visited- data for France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Great Britain, Northern Ireland, Other Europe, North America, Asia & Middle East, and All other areas

PCI – Update• Traditionally- quarterly data published• 2010, 2011 - annual data only published• 2012 – annual data published but included a

quarterly breakdown for some tables• 2013 onwards– data published quarterly • Major improvements in timeliness – published

Q12014 within 73 days of the end of the reference period

PCI – Additional tables – Trips to Ireland

• 2012 – Data for France, Germany, Italy and Australia & New Zealand published

• 2012 - Additional tables showing both average length of stay and expenditure by area of residence by reason for journey

• Q42013 – Annual tables created for those tables which previously didn’t show annual data.

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