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Published: 3 August 2011

In June 2011 Finns went on a cruise to Estonia or travelled to the Mediterranean

In June, Finnish residents went on cruises as eagerly as one year earlier but Sweden lost some of its popularity to Estonia to where the number of cruises doubled. The destination of many resident tourists was also the Mediterranean to where the number of trips went up by 75 per cent from last year. Domestic leisure trips with paid accommodation increased by nine per cent in June when compared with the respective month of the previous year.

Finnish residents' overnight leisure trips in June 2011 and annual change, preliminary data

	Trips in June	Annual change, % 6/2011 - 6/2010	Trips in January - June	Cumulative annual change, % 1-6/2011 - 1-6/2010
Domestic trips with paid accommodation	483 000	9	2 639 000	7
Trips to own free-time residence and visits to friends and relatives	2 175 000	2	11 670 000	7
Trips in Finland, total	2 658 000	4	14 309 000	7
Trips abroad, overnight in country of destination	400 000	12	1 948 000	6
- Estonia	77 000	-10	396 000	0
- Sweden	38 000	-36	156 000	-23
- Other countries	286 000	35	1 395 000	12
Cruises, overnight on board only	112 000	0	823 000	9
- To Estonia	41 000	116	258 000	31
- To Sweden	71 000	-21	564 000	2
Trips abroad, total	512 000	9	2 771 000	6
Leisure trips, total	3 170 000	4	17 080 000	7

In Juni Finnish residents made 512,000 overnight leisure trips abroad. In all, 400,000 of them included one or more overnights in the country of destination, nineteen per cent in Estonia and ten per cent in Sweden. Most of the cruises including overnights on board only were to Sweden and Estonia.

Finnish residents made 2.7 million leisure trips in Finland. This is 4 per cent up on the corresponding period in the year before. Most of the trips, or 2.2 million, included free accommodation at one’s own free-time residence, with relatives or friends or in some other type of free accommodation.

These preliminary data are based on Statistics Finland’s Finnish Travel Survey for which 1,377 persons aged 15 to 74 permanently resident in Finland were interviewed in July.

The final annual data on the Finnish Travel Survey are published on the homepage of the statistics in June following the statistical reference year.

Finns' leisure trips, cumulative accumulation monthly 2009–2011, preliminary data

Source: Finnish Travel, Statistics Finland

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• Appendix table 1. Domestic leisure trips with paid accommodation in June 2011, the most popular destination regions (3.8.2011)
• Appendix table 2. Leisure trips abroad with overnight stays in country of destination in June 2011, the most popular destinations (3.8.2011)
• Appendix table 3. Domestic leisure trips in April-June 2011 (3.8.2011)
• Appendix table 4. Overnight leisure trips abroad in April-June 2011 (3.8.2011)
• Appendix table 5. Overnight leisure trips (excl. trips to own free-time residence and visits to friends and relatives) in April-June 2000-2011 (3.8.2011)

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Updated 3.8.2011