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Published: 1 July 2010

Finnish residents favoured domestic paid accommodation on leisure trips in May 2010

For a while in May Finland was the warmest place in Europe and domestic travel by Finnish residents was indeed lively. In May Finnish residents made 476,000 domestic leisure trips with paid accommodation. This is 53 per cent up on the corresponding period one year earlier. Finnish residents made 488,000 leisure trips abroad in May. Of these, 237,000 where headed to Sweden or Estonia. This is 21 per cent up on the corresponding period one year earlier.

Finnish residents' overnight leisure trips in May 2010 and annual change, preliminary data

	Trips in May	Annual change, % 5/2010 - 5/2009	Trips in January - May	Cumulative annual change, % 1-5/2010 - 1-5/2009
Domestic trips with paid accommodation	476 000	53	2 021 000	20
Trips to own free-time residence and visits to friends and relatives	2 325 000	26	8 829 000	16
Trips in Finland, total	2 801 000	30	10 850 000	17
Trips abroad, overnight in country of destination	380 000	-3	1 489 000	4
- Estonia	80 000	-7	310 000	33
- Sweden	49 000	104	143 000	25
- Other countries	251 000	-11	1 037 000	-5
Cruises, overnight on board only	108 000	26	645 000	23
- To Estonia	44 000	38	178 000	9
- To Sweden	64 000	19	465 000	31
Trips abroad, total	488 000	2	2 134 000	9
Leisure trips, total	3 289 000	25	12 984 000	16

In May Finnish residents made 488,000 overnight leisure trips abroad. In all, 380,000 of them included one or more overnights in the country of destination, twenty-one per cent in Estonia and thirteen per cent in Sweden. Most of the cruises including overnights on board only were to Sweden and Estonia.

Finnish residents made 2.8 million leisure trips in Finland. This is thirty per cent up on the corresponding period in the year before. Most of the trips, or 2.3 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 1,396 persons aged 15 to 74 permanently resident in Finland were interviewed in June.

The final annual data on the Finnish Travel Survey are published on the homepage of the statistics in July following the statistical reference year. 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' leisure trips by month 2008–2010, preliminary data

Source: Finnish Travel, Statistics Finland

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Updated 1.7.2010