Market Intelligence
Welcome to TSE's tourism facts page. Here you will find the latest regional data on tourism volume and value, accommodation occupancy, attraction visits and visitor profiles. You can also access the latest reports on key sectors and how tourism in the South East is performing.
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Key Tourism Facts
- Tourism is one of the region's largest industries generating over £10.5 billion per annum in terms of visitor expenditure, equivalent to approximately 5% of regional GVA.
- Tourism provides employment for more than 302,000 people (around 8% of the region's workforce).
- Tourism brings 16.5 million domestic overnight visitors, 4.5 million overseas visitors and 190 million day visitors to the South East each year.
Annual Tourism Trends
Tourism South East's annual Tourism Trends and Future Forecast Review has been completed and is now available to download.
Scroll down the left hand panel to find the latest tourism facts, trend and reports.
You will find the following regional and national information on the Market Intelligence pages:
- The volume of overnight and day trips associated expenditure
- Visitor profiles and key trip features
- Average room and bed occupancy among a sample of serviced accommodation
- Average unit occupancy from a sample of non-serviced accommodation businesses
- Admission figures for a sample of Visitor Attractions
- The supply of tourism businesses
- The number of people employed in the tourism industry
- A list of reports and articles including TSE research publications
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