Number of International Visitors to London

Visit Britain publish data relating to international visitors to the UK. They produce the data in two formats - individual spreadsheets for each region that are updated annually, and a single spreadsheet for all regions, containing less detail but updated quarterly.

London data

London data shows totals for nights, visits, and spend. Data broken down by age, purpose, duration, mode and country. This spreadsheet is also available from Visit Britain website.

All Regions data

The latest quarterly data for regions (47MB), shows quarterly data including purpose and country. This spreadsheet is also available from Visit Britain website.

A combination of these two spreadsheets is used to create data used for the Dashboard.

All data taken from the International Passenger Survey (IPS).

International tourism accounts for nearly four-fifths of all tourist spending in London. Some additional data on domestic tourism can be found on the Visit Britain website, and Visit England both overnight tourism and Day visits pages.

Data on accomodation occupancy levels is also available from Visit England.

An overview of all tourism data for London can be found in this GLAE report 'Tourism in London'

Further information can be found on the London and Partners website.

Comparisons of international tourist arrivals with other world cities are produced by Euromonitor and in Mastercard's Global Destination Cities Index of 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015.