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The latest annual tourism statistics were published on 25 May 2017 incorporating overnight trips taken by NI residents.
Trips by Northern Ireland residents
The latest domestic tourism publications can be found at the following link:
Methodology Review
NISRA is currently undertaking a review of the methodology used for producing Domestic Tourism data.
This will include (but not limited to) analysis on the weighting methodology for domestic tourism data, exploring the possibility of including data for children (aged under 16) in overnight trip outputs, and improving outlier analysis.
After the review has been conducted NISRA will publish an impact analysis on Domestic Tourism statistics; and assess the possibility of backdating previously published data.
Methodology
The tourism module of the Continuous Household Survey (CHS) collects details of overnight trips to UK and Republic of Ireland (RoI) destinations and day trips to NI and RoI destinations.
- Continuous Household Survey (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency website) (to add)
- Analysis methodology - Overnight trips
Useful links
- Tourism statistics publication schedule
- Tourism statistics early indicators
- Tourism statistics archive publications
More information on data quality can be found at
More information on the quality of administrative sources can be found at
If you require access to archive publications please contact: tourismstatistics@nisra.gov.uk
