stats modeling the world 2nd edition pdf

The general direction is assumed to be upwards, contingent on travel restrictions not being tightened significantly from current levels, as well as a gradual return of traveller confidence.īy the end of 2022 we are forecasting visits to have recovered to around 68% of pre-COVID levels. Visit numbers, relative to pre-COVID baseline levels, are forecast to increase slowly in the spring and more substantially in the summer. These are 59% and 67% respectively of the visits and spend levels seen in 2019. Inbound visits are forecast to increase to 24.0 million, and spending to £19.2 billion. Our forecast for 2021 is for 5.8 million visits from Europe, 21% of 2019 levels, with these visitors spending £3.7 billion and 1.9 million visits from long haul markets, 14% of 2019 levels, with these visitors spending £3.2 billion. This effect is forecast to ease although not disappear as a more normal visitor pattern emerges in the second half of the year.įlight bookings data suggests that inbound visitor numbers picked up in the second half of the year, although by year end we still expect total visitor numbers to be less than half of pre-COVID levels. The increase in spend in 2021, despite the fall in visits, is driven by the large increase in spend per visit recorded by IPS data in the first half of the year, a result of a much higher average length of stay. Our latest central scenario for inbound tourism for the full year 2021 is for 7.7 million visits, a 31% decline on 2020 and 19% of the 2019 level and £6.9 billion to be spent by inbound tourists, representing growth of 11% on 2020 although still only 24% of the 2019 level.

You can find more detail on the latest 2021 figures here and on 2020 data here. There were 471,000 inbound visits to the UK in the first half of 2021 amongst air passengers (97% down on 2020), with these visitors spending £634 million (down 94%). However, due to COVID restrictions the IPS data was only collected at airports, not at ferry ports or the tunnel. At time of writing the outlook is highly uncertain but it is very likely that the 2021 forecast will be revised downwards slightly and the 2022 forecast revised downwards more significantly in subsequent updates, dependent on the progression and severity of the new variant.Īt time of writing data from the International Passenger Survey is available for the first half of the year (January to June). Update November 29th: the below forecasts were run just before the Omicron COVID variant was discovered.

Stats modeling the world 2nd edition pdf