The International Passenger Survey is a sample survey carried out by the Office for National Statistics.
The data collected includes, country of visit (for UK residents), country of residence and region of the UK visited (for overseas residents), expenditure, purpose of visit, length of stay, age group, gender, mode of transport, port, year and quarter of visit.
The survey operates continuously with results published monthly in the First Release overseas travel and tourism, quarterly in the publication MQ6, and annually in the publication Travel Trends. In addition a compact dataset of selected IPS variables called Travelpac is available for basic analysis, with more complicated analyses being available through two marketing agents.
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