Yearbook of Tourism Statistics, Data 2017 – 2021, 2023 Edition

• All Regions
• 30 Jan 19

Understanding, for each country, where its inbound tourism is generated is essential for analysing international tourism flows and devising marketing strategies, such as those related to the positioning of national markets abroad. Deriving from the most comprehensive statistical database available on the tourism sector, the Yearbook of Tourism Statistics focusses on data related to inbound tourism (total arrivals and overnight stays), broken down by country of origin. The 2023 edition of the Yearbook of Tourism Statistics presents data on total arrivals and overnight stays of inbound tourism for 187 countries and territories, broken down in both cases by country of origin, while the COVID-19 pandemic has been taken into account, as it has caused an unprecedented situation worldwide that has especially affected the tourism sector and also the statistical systems of countries.

For a better understanding of the data, please download the Methodological Notes to the Tourism Statistics Database, 2023 Edition.

Downloads

• Yearbook of Tourism Statistics, Data 2017 – 2021, 2019 Edition (eISBN: 978-92-844-2413-9)

Outbound tourism data (calculated on the basis of arrivals data in destination countries)

In addition to the Compendium of Tourism Statistics and the Yearbook of Tourism Statistics, and in order to complement the still relatively limited outbound tourism statistics provided directly by countries, UN Tourism estimates data for countries’ outbound tourism flows (i.e. tourism of resident visitors outside the economic territory of the country of reference). This is done on the basis of data supplied by each of the destination countries and therefore corresponds to arrivals in these countries (and not to Departures data provided by the country of reference and compiled in the Compendium of Tourism Statistics).

The Methodological Notes to the Tourism Statistics Database, 2023 Edition include conceptual references and technical notes for a better understanding and application of the statistics in this dataset. Available in English, French and Spanish.

How to obtain the data

As customized Excel datasheets (for any country and any period between 1995-2022) through UN Tourism’s online Tourism Statistics application

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