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Published: 3 September 2009

Leisure trips in July 2009

In July Finnish residents made 610,000 overnight leisure trips abroad. Of these trips 510,000 included one or more overnights in the country of destination. One in four of these trips were headed to Estonia and one in eight to Sweden. 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 1,488 persons aged 15 to 74 permanently resident in Finland were interviewed in August.

Finnish residents made 3.8 million leisure trips in Finland. This is 3 per cent down from the corresponding period in the year before. Most of the trips, or 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) in six weeks from the end of the relevant quarter.

Finnish residents' overnight leisure trips in July 2009 and annual change, preliminary data

	Trips in July	Annual change, % 7/2009 - 7/2008	Cumulative annual change, % 1-7/2009 - 1-7/2008
Domestic trips with paid accommodation	839,000	-7	-3
Trips to own free-time residence and visits to friends and relatives	2,969,000	-2	1
Trips in Finland, total	3,808,000	-3	0
Trips abroad, overnight in country of destination	510,000	0	8
- Estonia	119,000	-1	7
- Sweden	65,000	2	4
- Other countries	327,000	1	8
Cruises, overnight on board only	100,000	22	-5
- To Estonia	40,000	48	-13
- To Sweden	59,000	13	0
Trips abroad, total	610,000	3	5
Leisure trips, total	4,418,000	-3	1

Source: Finnish Travel. Statistics Finland

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Last updated 3.9.2009