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Leisure travel abroad picked up slightly in autumn 2025

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release | Finnish travel 2025, 3rd four months of the year

According to Statistics Finland, around 5.9 million domestic leisure trips with overnight stay were made in September to December 2025, which is 15 per cent fewer than in autumn 2024. The number of leisure trips abroad with overnight stay was slightly higher than in the previous year, being around 2.0 million in autumn 2025.

Key selections

  • Altogether 2.2 million leisure trips abroad were made in autumn (September to December) 2025, when trips with overnight stay in the destination country and same-day trips and cruises are included.
  • Nearly every third leisure trip abroad was made to Southern Europe. Fewer trips were made to the neighbouring countries Sweden and Estonia.
  • The decrease in the number of domestic leisure trips was due to a decline in the number of trips with free accommodation. In autumn 2025, around 4.0 million such trips were made, which is one fifth lower than one year earlier.
  • The number of domestic leisure trips with paid accommodation grew by close on one tenth from the year before and was around 1.9 million.
  • The number of business trips with overnight stay grew both in Finland and abroad.

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13fa
Classifications used:
  • Trip direction
  • Trip purpose
  • Accommodation
  • Trip duration
  • Season
  • Transport
Reference period cycle:
year
Updating frequency:
three times a year
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Updated:
13fi
Classifications used:
  • Season
  • Accommodation
  • Trip's destination region
Reference period cycle:
year
Updating frequency:
three times a year
Statistics:
Updated:
13gp
Classifications used:
  • Type of trip abroad
  • Trip purpose
  • Area of destination
  • Season
Reference period cycle:
year
Updating frequency:
three times a year
Statistics:
Updated:
13h2
Classifications used:
  • Season
  • Accommodation
  • Trip's destination municipality
Reference period cycle:
year
Updating frequency:
three times a year
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Updated:
13h3
Classifications used:
  • Season
  • Trip direction
  • Trip purpose
  • Trip duration
Reference period cycle:
year
Updating frequency:
three times a year
Statistics:
Updated:

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Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Finnish travel [online publication].
Reference period: 2025, 3rd four months of the year. ISSN=1798-9027. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [Referenced: 12.3.2026].
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