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A record number of people visited Bath and North East Somerset last year, contributing £470m to the local economy, according to figures released today.
The latest Visitor Impact Report, an independent survey carried out by The South West Research Company, shows that an estimated 6.25 million people visited the district in 2018.
The survey also reveals that the value of the visitor economy in Bath and North East Somerset is almost half a billion pounds, contributing £470m to the local economy. An increase of £40m since the last survey was carried out in 2016.
During 2018 more than a million people (1.182m) stayed in the area, a third of these staying guests were international visitors. Around a half of the staying visitors opted for serviced accommodation such as hotels or B&Bs, while around a third stayed with family or friends. The survey found that the spend of staying guests was more than £266.5m
Bath and North East Somerset also received an estimated five million day-visitors during 2018, spending more than £191 million.
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Kathryn Davis, Interim CEO, Visit Bath, said: “Compared to the last data set produced for 2016, we have seen growth in both the volume and spend of staying visitors. While the volume of day visitors has also grown, the average spend per visit remains relatively similar to 2016.”
Councillor Dine Romero, Leader of Bath & North East Somerset Council said: “Tourism is a vital part of the local economy and I’m pleased to hear that our beautiful city and its surrounding towns, villages and countryside remain an attractive destination for so many people. The strength of our visitor economy shows the confidence people have in our city and the wider area, which has to be good news for business owners and employees. However, looking to the future we must continue to develop more sustainable tourism and make sure the long-term interests of the city and its residents are also protected.”
Figures from the International Passenger Survey (IPS) for 2018 were released earlier this year, showing that Bath was the 11 th most visited town or city in the UK, up from 12 th most visited in 2017. In 2018, the estimated top five visitor markets were USA, Germany, Italy, Spain and France, with Australia, Ireland, The Netherlands, Canada and New Zealand completing the top ten.
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Freelance Journalist, broadcaster, columnist and local historian. Director of Bath Newseum. Married and lives in Bath. Interested in local history, architecture and visual display in museums and urban spaces. View all posts by Richard Wyatt
The Visit Bath CEO says “While the volume of day visitors has also grown, the average spend per visit remains relatively similar to 2016.”. That is exactly the problem! The year on year increase in all these coaches full of visitors who stay for just an hour and contribute next to nothing is badly hurting the infrastructure of the city and lives of we residents.
Year after year, Bath councillors breathlessly welcome the town’s record tourism figures, although this year the required reference to ‘sustainable’ tourism is made, although without any indication of what this means and how it could be achieved.
A few years ago The Guardian – a newspaper with which Lib Dems will be fondly familiar – published the views of a travel industry expert who thinks mass tourism can never be rendered sustainable.
It’s here: https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/six-reasons-mass-tourism-unsustainable
“Residents of tourism hotspots, who may have welcomed the first influx of visitors,” she writes, “soon find that cheap travel doesn’t reduce their costs. Visitors cause land, food, water, housing and infrastructure prices to increase at a rate closely correlated with the decline in tourism operators’ margins. Sadly, more tourism often means less benefit to the host communities.”
The omission of China from the top ten visiting nations shows how unreliable the IPS is!
In 2018 there were 111,491 Chinese visitors to the Roman Baths, almost double the next most spoken language, French, at 58,015.
Regards Stephen
Stephen Bird MBE Head of Heritage Services Bath & North East Somerset Council Pump Room Stall Street Bath BA1 1LZ +44(0)1225 477750
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Tourists visiting Bath brought in a staggering £470 million pounds for the local economy it has been revealed.
There was a record number of visitors to Bath last year, contributing £470m to the local economy, according to figures released today.
The latest Visitor Impact Report, an independent survey carried out by The South West Research Company, shows that an estimated 6.25 million people visited the area in 2018.
The survey says that the value of the visitor economy in Bath and North East Somerset is almost half a billion pounds, contributing £470m to the local economy.
An increase of £40m since the last survey was carried out in 2016.
Councillor Dine Romero, leader of Bath & North East Somerset Council, said: “Tourism is a vital part of the local economy and I’m pleased to hear that our beautiful city and its surrounding towns, villages and countryside remain an attractive destination for so many people.
"The strength of our visitor economy shows the confidence people have in our city and the wider area, which has to be good news for business owners and employees.
"However, looking to the future we must continue to develop more sustainable tourism and make sure the long-term interests of the city and its residents are also protected.”
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During 2018 more than a million people (1.182m) stayed in the area, a third of these staying guests were international visitors.
Around a half of the staying visitors opted for serviced accommodation such as hotels or B&Bs, while around a third stayed with family or friends.
The survey found that the spend of staying guests was more than £266.5m.
Bath and North East Somerset also received an estimated five million day-visitors during 2018, spending more than £191 million.
Kathryn Davis, interim CEO at Visit Bath, said: “Compared to the last data set produced for 2016, we have seen growth in both the volume and spend of staying visitors. While the volume of day visitors has also grown, the average spend per visit remains relatively similar to 2016.”
Figures from the International Passenger Survey (IPS) for 2018 were released earlier this year, showing that Bath was the 11 most visited town or city in the UK, up from 12 most visited in 2017.
In 2018, the estimated top five visitor markets were USA, Germany, Italy, Spain and France, with Australia, Ireland, The Netherlands, Canada and New Zealand completing the top ten.
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The latest Visitor Impact Report, an independent survey carried out by The South West Research Company, shows that an estimated 6.25 million people visited the district in 2018.
The survey also reveals that the value of the visitor economy in Bath and North East Somerset is almost half a billion pounds, contributing £470m to the local economy, an increase of £40m since the last survey was carried out in 2016.
During 2018 more than a million people (1.182m) stayed in the area, a third of these staying guests were international visitors.
Around half of the staying visitors opted for serviced accommodation such as hotels or B&Bs, while around a third stayed with family or friends.
The survey found that the spend of staying guests was more than £266.5m.
Bath and North East Somerset also received an estimated five million day-visitors during 2018, spending more than £191 million.
Kathryn Davis, Interim CEO, Visit Bath, said: “Compared to the last data set produced for 2016, we have seen growth in both the volume and spend of staying visitors.
“While the volume of day visitors has also grown, the average spend per visit remains relatively similar to 2016.”
Councillor Dine Romero, Leader of Bath & North East Somerset Council added: “Tourism is a vital part of the local economy and I’m pleased to hear that our beautiful city and its surrounding towns, villages and countryside remain an attractive destination for so many people.
“The strength of our visitor economy shows the confidence people have in our city and the wider area, which has to be good news for business owners and employees.
“However, looking to the future we must continue to develop more sustainable tourism and make sure the long-term interests of the city and its residents are also protected.”
Figures from the International Passenger Survey (IPS) for 2018 were released earlier this year, showing that Bath was the 11th most visited town or city in the UK, up from 12th most visited in 2017.
In 2018, the estimated top five visitor markets were USA, Germany, Italy, Spain and France, with Australia, Ireland, The Netherlands, Canada and New Zealand completing the top ten.
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19 of the most surprising statistics about tourism
I t’s World Tourism Day, a time – these days – for much pontificating about sustainability and the impact of travel upon the planet. Instead, we’re going to take a look at some of the more surprisingly facts about the tourism industry. It’s all perfect fodder for your next pub quiz.
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Aviation accounts for just 2 per cent of global carbon emissions
But first, a word on sustainability. Alongside giving up meat, taking fewer flights is usually billed as the best way for individuals to cut their carbon footprint, and with the recent “flight shaming” trend, it can feel like we’re being collectively bullied to stay on the ground. All of which might lead one to assume that aviation accounts for a considerable chunk of global emissions. The actual figure, therefore, may be smaller than you’d imagine. In 2022 aviation, when the industry reached 80 per cent of pre-pandemic levels, it accounted for just 2 per cent of global carbon emissions.
By 2030, one in four tourists will be Chinese
A few years ago, the China Outbound Tourism Research Institute (COTRI) predicted that overseas trips by the country’s residents would increase from 145m a year to more than 400m by 2030. In other words, it would account for around a quarter of international tourism. The pandemic put the brakes on such staggering growth, but expect things to start picking up again – fast.
Saudi Arabia wants to surpass France as a holiday destination
Speaking of 2030, that is the year when Saudi Arabia wants to start welcoming 100m annual visitors – more than the record 91.1m France, the world’s most visited country, welcomed in 2019. It’s all part of Vision 2030, the state’s grand plan to jettison its overreliance on oil. Central to that plan will be the launch of Riyadh Air, to take on the likes of Emirates, the construction of a vast new airport designed to accommodate up to 120m annual passengers, and the creation of two new coastal “cities” – Amaala and Neom – to lure sunseekers .
France’s number two tourist town?
Paris is number one – naturellement. But number two isn’t Bordeaux, Nice or Marseille. It’s Lourdes, a town of 13,000 residents that manages to attract 6m visitors every year thanks to the apparitions of a peasant girl called Bernadette. It has 279 hotels to choose from, according to Booking.com – only the French capital has more.
Only 0.07 per cent of the world’s population have been to Antarctica
You get that rough figure if you divide the number of people who visit Antarctica each year (100,000) by the number of people born each year (140m). But even fewer have been to the least visited country on Earth, Tuvalu – just 0.0026% of us (or 3,700 people a year).
More Britons visit the Canary Islands each year than Italy
Lying on a hot volcanic rock? It’s better than Rome, Florence, Venice, Tuscany, the Dolomites, the Cinque Terre and the Amalfi Coast rolled into one. That’s according to official figures which show that around 5m of us go to the Canaries each year, compared with the 4.1m who visit Italy.
The biggest hotel on Earth is not in Las Vegas
Twelve of the world’s 20 largest hotels, in terms of total rooms, are found in Sin City. But number one, the First World Hotel (which has a staggering 7,351 rooms), is somewhere rather more obscure. The Genting Highlands of Malaysia. It will soon lose the record, however. The US$3.5 billion Abraj Kudai in Mecca, under construction since 2015, will have 10,000 rooms.
And Macau makes more money from gambling tourists than Las Vegas
Another win for Asia. Macau has earned a reputation as the “Monte Carlo of the Orient”. Chinese games – like Fan Tan , a version of roulette – traditionally dominated its casinos, but the last 20 years have seen a move to embrace the many western-style ways of parting the punter from their money – to the extent that, in 2007, Macao overtook the Las Vegas Strip on gambling revenues.
Which is the most luxurious place on Earth?
What – or where – is the most luxurious place on earth? New York? Dubai? Abu Dhabi? Obviously, the answer depends on how you are defining “luxurious”. But if the key metric is “city with the greatest number of five-star hotels”, then the identity of the most gleaming metropolis may surprise you. It used to be London, but as of earlier this month, and the release of the 2023 edition of jet-set bible the Forbes Travel Guide , the place in focus is – again – Macau. Said chic dot on the map of the Far East now boasts 22 hotels in the uppermost bracket.
Inverness is more popular than Stratford-upon-Avon
With its Shakespeare connections, surely Stratford-upon-Avon welcomes more tourists than plucky little Inverness? Not so, according to VisitBritain. London is number one, by a mile (21.7m overnight visitors in 2019, the last “normal” year), followed by Edinburgh (2.2m), Manchester (1.6m) and Birmingham (1.1m). Stratford lags way down in 17th, with 271,000 arrivals, just below Inverness (which, we assume, is used by many as a launch pad for jaunts around the Highlands).
And Reading trumps Windsor
Both are in Berkshire, but only one can boast the largest inhabited castle on the planet, Britain’s branch of Legoland, and a picturesque riverside racecourse. Yet it is Reading that makes VisitBritain’s top 20 (237,000 visitors in 2019) at the expense of Windsor.
The Maldives really needs your money
The value of tourism to the Maldivian economy is more than US$2bn – or 32.5 per cent of its GDP. Only one destination (hello again Macau) is more reliant on your money . Needless to say, the last few years have been a struggle.
Tourists outnumber locals by 7,853 to 1 in the Vatican City
The Vatican City has just 764 permanent inhabitants, measures a titchy 0.2 square miles, and receives – according to some sources – 6m visitors a year. That’s 7,853 tourists per resident or 31.58m per square mile.
Bangladesh is the world’s least touristy country
At the other end of the scale is Bangladesh. With a population of 169.8m but only 323,000 annual visitors, it welcomes just 0.002 tourists per resident per year, making it perhaps the least touristy country on Earth.
Iran has 25 World Heritage Sites
This won’t surprise anyone who has been there – it’s a fascinating place packed with history (though currently off-limits, according to the Foreign Office). But those who don’t know it well might raise an eyebrow to learn that it trumps the likes of Japan, the US and Greece when it comes to World Heritage Sites .
Bicester Village is almost as popular as Buckingham Palace
Among Chinese visitors that is. Travellers from the world’s most populous country have some other curious destinations on their wishlist . Around 150,000 visit Trier every year, for example, making it the most sought-after German destination among Chinese globetrotters. Why? It is the birthplace of Karl Marx, of course. And Montargis, a small town south of Paris, is also inexplicably popular. That’s because hundreds of young Chinese scholars studied there in the early part of the 20th century, including many future stars of China’s Communist Party.
English really is the global language
Thanks to a combination of empire, mass tourism and invasive Western culture, English really is the global language. According to David Crystal’s book English as a Global Language, at least half the population of 45 countries speak it. There are also just 13 countries where fewer than 10 per cent of the population speak English, including China, Colombia, Brazil and Russia.
16 of the world’s 30 busiest airports are American
A combination of international travel slowdown and America’s ravenous appetite for flying meant that in 2022, 16 of the world’s 30 busiest airports (in terms of total passenger numbers) were on US soil. Number one, as it has been each year since 1998 (except for 2020, when it was temporarily unseated by Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport), was Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport (93.7m passengers for 2022).
Albania is already welcoming more tourists than in 2019
The pandemic saw tourism slump across the planet, but some countries have recovered far quicker than others. They include Turkey, the fourth most visited country in 2022 (50.5m overseas arrivals, a shade under its 2019 figure of 51.2m), the UAE (22.7m arrivals in 2022 vs 21.6m in 2019) and, perfect for budget sunshine, Albania (6.7m arrivals in 2022 vs 6.1m in 2019).
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