How has Brexit vote affected visitor numbers ?
Visitor numbers for September have now been released by the ONS. The show an overall increase of 1% to 3.12m, although their total spend was down 6% to ￡2.1bn.
This is in line with the 3-month trend with the period from July to September also up 1%.
Holiday visitors account for a third of the visits and are up in September by 1%, although holiday visits for the quarter as a whole by -2%.
Family and friend visits are up by 5% for the quarter and business visitors up by 3%.
Overall year to date figures are 3% above last year which represents a record for the same period in previous years.
Based on the lower value of the pound, expect this trend to continue into next year.
Visit and spend figures
Visits by journey purpose
source: visitbritain.org