When taking day trips within Great Britain, British tourists tended to visit cities or large towns more often than the countryside. Seaside destinations were most popular with day trippers in Wales, with 19 percent visiting the coast for the day in 2019 compared to 10 percent of respondents in England and Scotland respectively.
Main type of place visited on tourism day visits in Great Britain in 2019, by country
GBDVS 2019 was undertaken using an online methodology with a total of
35,746 interviews conducted with adults aged 16 and over who were resident in England, Scotland and Wales during 52 weekly survey waves. Tourism day visits are defined by the source as leisure day visits lasting three hours or more, to destinations that are different to where the participant lives and not undertaken 'very regularly'.
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