Town Data 2017

In 2017, British residents took 100.6 million overnight trips in England, totalling 299 million nights away from home and expenditure of £19 billion, with an average trip length of 3 nights. The number of domestic trips was 1% higher than in 2016.

From a regional perspective the indications are that tourism in the South West during 2017 started relatively poorly impacted heavily by unsettled weather and the economic uncertainty following the fall-out from the Brexit referendum in June the previous year. Performance was then relatively level throughout the peak period months of May to September (compared to 2016) but finished off more positively towards the end of the year during the October to December period.