Number of tourism day visits in Great Britain 2011-2023
Around 1.16 billion day trips were taken by British tourists within Great Britain in 2023. While this marked an increase from the previous year, it remained below levels recorded before the start of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
Tourism Day Visits (TDVs) are defined as leisure day visits, lasting three hours or more, to destinations other than where the place the participant lives and that they do not visit 'very regularly'. Figures for three hour plus leisure day visits in Great Britain overall reached around 2.96 billion trips in 2023.