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Published: 3 September 2009

Leisure trips in July 2009

In July Finnish residents made 610,000 overnight leisure trips abroad. Of these trips 510,000 included one or more overnights in the country of destination. One in four of these trips were headed to Estonia and one in eight to Sweden. Most of the cruises including overnights on board only were to Sweden and Estonia. These preliminary data are based on Statistics Finland's Finnish Travel Survey for which 1,488 persons aged 15 to 74 permanently resident in Finland were interviewed in August.

Finnish residents made 3.8 million leisure trips in Finland. This is 3 per cent down from the corresponding period in the year before. Most of the trips, or 3 million, included free accommodation at one's own free-time residence, with relatives or friends or in some other type of free accommodation.

The final and more accurate data on the Finnish Travel Survey are published in the annual publication on Finnish travel. In addition, quarterly preliminary data are published in connection with the monthly publication Tourism Statistics (accommodation statistics) in six weeks from the end of the relevant quarter.

Finnish residents' overnight leisure trips in July 2009 and annual change, preliminary data

  Trips in July       Annual change, %
7/2009 - 7/2008
Cumulative annual change, %
1-7/2009 - 1-7/2008
Domestic trips with paid accommodation 839,000 -7 -3
Trips to own free-time residence and visits to friends and relatives 2,969,000 -2 1
Trips in Finland, total 3,808,000 -3 0
Trips abroad, overnight in country of destination 510,000 0 8
  - Estonia 119,000 -1 7
  - Sweden 65,000 2 4
  - Other countries 327,000 1 8
Cruises, overnight on board only 100,000 22 -5
  - To Estonia 40,000 48 -13
  - To Sweden 59,000 13 0
Trips abroad, total 610,000 3 5
Leisure trips, total 4,418,000 -3 1

Source: Finnish Travel. Statistics Finland

Inquiries: Ms Taru Tamminen +358 9 1734 2243 and Ms Ritva Tikkanen +358 9 1734 3300, liikenne.matkailu@stat.fi

Director in charge: Ms Hannele Orjala

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Last updated 3.9.2009

Referencing instructions:

Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Finnish Travel [e-publication].
ISSN=1798-9027. July 2009. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 29.3.2024].
Access method: http://www.stat.fi/til/smat/2009/07/smat_2009_07_2009-09-03_tie_001_en.html