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Tourism and Countries: Statistics

UNWTO

In the  UNWTO (World Tourism Organization) e-library you can find domestic, inbound and outbound tourism statistics via the tab "statistics".

Statista

Eurostat

Eurostat is the Statistical Office of the European Communities. You can also search for tourism statistics.

National Statistical Offices

Look for the (national) statistical office / bureau of the country of your research and see if they have publications on tourism or eg economic surveys in which a chapter on tourism can be hidden.

A statistical office website possibly also offers a statistical database to search in like Statline of the CBS (Netherlands).

For instance for the Netherlands use Statline

National Tourism Organizations

Look on the internet for the National Tourism Organization of a country. You can try names like National Tourism Authority, National Tourist Authority, National Tourist Board, National Tourism Office etc. Many times statistics or policy/marketing reports are accessible on these websites

Most National Tourism Organizations have a promotional consumer site and a branch site. To get this information you need to be on the branch site of the organization.

TourMis

TourMIS provides free access (register to receive password) to the ECM (European Cities Marketing) and ETC (European Travel Commission) databases on bednights, arrivals and capacities in European destinations (cities and countries) and tourism in Austria. All information can be retrieved in the form of tables and graphs.

You can go to TourMIS here.

Reports

Statistics on tourism can also be published in a paper version. You can find these report in the library catalogue by searching on the country name followed bij the keywords tourism and statistics.

E.g. for the Netherlands the "Trendrapport toerisme, recreatie en vrije tijd" is published every year. NBTC/NIPO publishes the Continu-vakantieonderzoek (CVO) and Continu VrijetijdsOnderzoek (CVT) every year.