Home tourism journeys peak in December

In December 2022, EU residents made an estimated 92 million tourism journeys, representing 8.6% of all of the journeys made all through that yr. Of those, 73 million had been home travels, accounting for 9.0% of the entire home journeys made in 2022. An extra 19 million journeys had been made overseas, representing 7.1% of the entire overseas journeys. 

The enduring custom of favouring home journeys through the winter holidays and Christmas season causes a visual peak in considerably inactive winter months. In December 2022, the variety of home journeys was nearly 4 occasions greater than the variety of overseas journeys (within the different months of the yr, the variety of home journeys was on common 3 occasions greater than the variety of overseas journeys). 

Supply dataset: tour_dem_ttmd

The increase in home journeys through the end-of-year interval may be attributed to folks visiting mates and relations. This was the aim reported for greater than half of the home journeys in December (whereas within the different months of the yr, this function accounted for round 1 in 3 tourism journeys). 

Romania, Bulgaria and Malta – highest December peaks

Taking a look at nationwide knowledge, residents of Romania stand out with most 2022 travels concentrated in December – 17.1%. Residents of Bulgaria (12.5%) and Malta (11.8%) adopted. In distinction, journeys throughout December accounted for five.2% of the entire journeys made by residents of Greece, 6% of journeys made by residents of Lithuania, and 6.4% of journeys made by residents of Sweden.

Supply dataset: tour_dem_ttmd