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Published: 3 March 2009

Leisure trips in January 2009

In January Finnish residents made 337,000 overnight leisure trips abroad. Of these trips 248,000 included one or more overnights in the country of destination. A one-tenth 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 1,475 persons aged 15 to 74 permanently resident in Finland were interviewed in February.

Finnish residents made 1.6 million leisure trips in Finland. This is 11 per cent up from the corresponding period in the year before. Most of the trips, or 1.3 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 January 2009 and annual change, preliminary data

	Trips in January	Annual change, % 1/2009 - 1/2008	Monthly change, % 1/2009 - 12/2008
Domestic trips with paid accommodation	263,000	11	-10
Trips to own free-time residence and visits to friends and relatives	1,333,000	11	-11
Trips in Finland, total	1,596,000	11	-10
Trips abroad, overnight in country of destination	248,000	24	25
- Estonia	24,000	0	-59
- Other countries	224,000	27	61
Cruises, overnight on board only	89,000	-17	-14
- To Estonia	30,000	-27	7
- To Sweden	59,000	-11	-21
Trips abroad, total	337,000	10	12
Leisure trips, total	1,933,000	11	-7

Source: Finnish Travel. Statistics Finland

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Last updated 3.3.2009