Published: 3 February 2011
Finnish residents favoured domestic paid accommodation in December 2010
In December 2010, domestic travel by Finnish residents was lively, as 285,000 leisure trips with paid accommodation were made in Finland, which is 31 per cent more than in the corresponding period of one year before. Finnish residents made 350,000 leisure trips abroad, of which nearly 200,000 were headed to Sweden or Estonia. Finnish residents made four per cent fewer trips abroad compared with the corresponding period of the previous year.
Finnish residents' overnight leisure trips in December 2010 and annual change, preliminary data
Trips in December | Annual change, % 12/2010 - 12/2009 |
Trips in January - December | Cumulative annual change, % 1-12/2010 - 1-12/2009 |
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Domestic trips with paid accommodation | 285 000 | 31 | 5 925 000 | 26 |
Trips to own free-time residence and visits to friends and relatives | 1 347 000 | -9 | 24 763 000 | 21 |
Trips in Finland, total | 1 632 000 | -4 | 30 688 000 | 22 |
Trips abroad, overnight in country of destination | 234 000 | -7 | 3 973 000 | 6 |
- Estonia | 59 000 | 9 | 899 000 | 24 |
- Sweden | 25 000 | 25 | 460 000 | 30 |
- Other countries | 149 000 | -16 | 2 613 000 | -2 |
Cruises, overnight on board only | 116 000 | 5 | 1 459 000 | 20 |
- To Estonia | 39 000 | 34 | 442 000 | 11 |
- To Sweden | 76 000 | -7 | 1 005 000 | 24 |
Trips abroad, total | 350 000 | -4 | 5 432 000 | 9 |
Leisure trips, total | 1 982 000 | -4 | 36 120 000 | 20 |
In December Finnish residents made 350,000 overnight leisure trips abroad. In all, 234,000 of them included one or more overnights in the country of destination, twenty-five per cent in Estonia and eleven per cent in Sweden. Most of the cruises including overnights on board only were to Sweden and Estonia.
Finnish residents made 1.6 million leisure trips in Finland. This is 4 per cent down on the corresponding period in the year before. Most of the trips, or 1.3 million, included free accommodation at one’s own free-time residence, with relatives or friends or in some other type of free accommodation.
These preliminary data are based on Statistics Finland’s Finnish Travel Survey for which 1,432 persons aged 15 to 74 permanently resident in Finland were interviewed in Januari.
The final annual data on the Finnish Travel Survey are published on the homepage of the statistics in July following the statistical reference year. 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.
Finns' leisure trips abroad, cumulative accumulation monthly 2008–2010, preliminary data
![Finns' leisure trips abroad, cumulative accumulation monthly 2008–2010, preliminary data](smat_2010_12_2011-02-03_tie_001_en_001.gif)
Source: Finnish Travel, Statistics Finland
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Official Statistics of Finland (OSF):
Finnish Travel [e-publication].
ISSN=1798-9027. December 2010. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 17.8.2024].
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