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Published: 9 January 2009

Leisure trips in November 2008

In November Finnish residents made 302,000 overnight leisure trips abroad. Of these trips 200,000 included one or more overnights in the country of destination. A one-third of these trips were headed to Estonia. Most of the cruises including overnights on board only were to Sweden and Estonia. These preliminary data are based on Statistics Finland's Finnish Travel Survey for which 1,456 persons aged 15 to 74 permanently resident in Finland were interviewed in December.

Finnish residents made 1.8 million leisure trips in Finland. This is 19 per cent up from the corresponding period in the year before. Most of the trips, or 1.5 million, included free accommodation at one's own free-time residence, with relatives or friends or in some other type of free accommodation.

The final and more accurate data on the Finnish Travel Survey are published in the annual publication on Finnish travel. In addition, quarterly preliminary data are published in connection with the monthly publication Tourism Statistics (accommodation statistics) two months after the end of the relevant quarter.

Finnish residents' overnight leisure trips in November 2008 and annual change, preliminary data

	Trips in October	Annual change, % 11/2008 - 11/2007	Cumulative annual change, % 1-11/2008 - 1-11/2007
Domestic trips with paid accommodation	329,000	31	5
Trips to own free-time residence and visits to friends and relatives	1,469,000	16	2
Trips in Finland, total	1,798,000	19	3
Trips abroad, overnight in country of destination	200,000	-3	5
- Estonia	63,000	85	7
- Other countries	137,000	-21	4
Cruises, overnight on board only	102,000	-32	-5
- To Estonia	44,000	-8	6
- To Sweden	58,000	-44	-13
Trips abroad, total	302,000	-16	2
Leisure trips, total	2,100,000	12	2

Source: Finnish Travel. Statistics Finland

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Last updated 9.1.2009