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Published: 3 August 2010

Estonia and Sweden popular among Finnish tourists in June 2010

In June a large number of Finnish residents made a trip abroad to Estonia or Sweden. Finns made 254,000 leisure trips or cruises with overnight stays to our neighbouring countries, which is 27 per cent more than in the corresponding period of one year ago. Finnish residents made 445,000 leisure trips including overnight stays in Finland, which is one per cent up on June 2009.

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

	Trips in June	Annual change, % 6/2010 - 6/2009	Trips in January - June	Cumulative annual change, % 1-6/2010 - 1-6/2009
Domestic trips with paid accommodation	445 000	1	2 466 000	16
Trips to own free-time residence and visits to friends and relatives	2 123 000	-11	10 952 000	10
Trips in Finland, total	2 568 000	-9	13 418 000	11
Trips abroad, overnight in country of destination	357 000	3	1 846 000	4
- Estonia	86 000	51	396 000	37
- Sweden	59 000	23	202 000	25
- Other countries	212 000	-12	1 249 000	-6
Cruises, overnight on board only	112 000	11	757 000	21
- To Estonia	19 000	-37	197 000	2
- To Sweden	90 000	38	555 000	32
Trips abroad, total	469 000	5	2 603 000	8
Leisure trips, total	3 037 000	-7	16 021 000	10

In June Finnish residents made 469,000 overnight leisure trips abroad. In all, 357,000 of them included one or more overnights in the country of destination, twenty-four per cent in Estonia and seventeen per cent in Sweden. Most of the cruises including overnights on board only were to Sweden and Estonia.

Finnish residents made 2.6 million leisure trips in Finland. This is nine per cent down on the corresponding period in the year before. Most of the trips, or 2.1 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 1,249 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 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.

Finns' leisure trips abroad, cumulative accumulation monthly 2009-2010, preliminary data

Source: Finnish Travel, Statistics Finland

Inquiries: Taru Tamminen (09) 1734 2243, Ritva Tikkanen (09) 1734 3300, liikenne.matkailu@stat.fi

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Updated 3.8.2010