The full report of the 2012 Passenger Survey has now been released by the Economic Affairs Division of Treasury.
Initial figures, providing provisional estimates of the number of visits to the Island and the number of trips off-Island made by Island residents during 2012, were released earlier in the year. The full report gives a more detailed breakdown of these figures and provides additional data, including estimates of the expenditure, length of stay and area of residence of visitors.
The results show that:-
• Visitor numbers showed no significant change in 2012, with an estimated 294,460 trips to the Island by visitors during the year. However, the number of residents travelling off-Island fell from 348,819 to 335,627 over the same period, a fall of almost 4%.
• Of the 294,460 trips made by visitors in 2012, 106,381 (36.1%) were leisure visitors staying in paid accommodation, 116,424 (39.5%) were visiting and staying with friends or relatives and 65,551 (22.3%) were travelling for work or business reasons.
• The average length of stay of visitors was 5.1 nights in 2012, whilst the average for residents travelling off-Island was 7.9 nights.
• Expenditure on trips made by visitors to the Island in 2012 was just over ?103 million. On average, visitors spent around ?351 per visit.
The full report may be obtained from Tynwald Library (Price ?4.50) or may be downloaded free of charge from their website. (http://www.gov.im/treasury/economic/data/traffic.xml).
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