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Published: 3 February 2012

Finnish residents favoured trips abroad in December 2011

In December Finnish residents set off abroad and their trips with overnight stay in the destination country numbered close on 300,000. The destination of every fourth of these trips was the Canary Islands. Finnish residents made nearly 120,000 cruises in December. Leisure trips in Finland with paid ac-commodation remained on level with the previous year. The regions favoured in December were Uusimaa and North Ostrobothnia.

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

	Trips in December	Annual change, % 12/2011 - 12/2010	Trips in January - December	Cumulative annual change, % 1-12/2011 - 1-12/2010
Domestic trips with paid accommodation	285 000	0	5 819 000	-2
Trips to own free-time residence and visits to friends and relatives	1 471 000	9	25 379 000	2
Trips in Finland, total	1 756 000	8	31 198 000	2
Trips abroad, overnight in country of destination	290 000	24	4 290 000	8
- Estonia	52 000	-12	1 021 000	14
- Sweden	17 000	..	376 000	-18
- Other countries	221 000	..	2 892 000	11
Cruises, overnight on board only	119 000	3	1 595 000	9
- To Estonia	64 000	..	496 000	12
- To Sweden	55 000	..	1 074 000	7
Trips abroad, total	409 000	17	5 885 000	8
Leisure trips, total	2 165 000	9	37 083 000	3

In December Finnish residents made 409,000 overnight leisure trips abroad. In all, 290,000 of them included one or more overnights in the country of destination, eighteen per cent in Estonia and six per cent in Sweden. Most of the cruises including overnights on board only were to Sweden and Estonia.

Finnish residents made 1.8 million leisure trips in Finland. This is 8 per cent up on 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.

These preliminary data are based on Statistics Finland’s Finnish Travel Survey for which 1,395 persons aged 15 to 74 permanently resident in Finland were interviewed in January.

In place of monthly releases, data from the Finnish Travel Survey will in future be released three times a year. The first release will concern data for the January to April period.
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Finns' leisure trips, cumulative accumulation monthly 2008-2011, preliminary data

Source: Finnish Travel, Statistics Finland

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• Appendix table 1. Domestic leisure trips with paid accommodation in December 2011, the most popular destination regions (3.2.2012)
• Appendix table 2. Leisure trips abroad with overnight stays in country of destination in December 2011, the most popular destinations (3.2.2012)
• Appendix table 3. Domestic leisure trips in October-December 2011 (3.2.2012)
• Appendix table 4. Overnight leisure trips abroad in October-December 2011 (3.2.2012)
• Appendix table 5. Overnight leisure trips (excl. trips to own free-time residence and visits to friends and relatives) in October-December 2000-2011 (3.2.2012)

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Updated 3.2.2012