Business Visits to the UK

Here you will find data on business visits to the UK by overseas residents.  VisitBritain has sponsored an additional question on the International Passenger Survey to get a breakdown of business visits into more detailed categories, namely, 'Trade Fair/Exhibition', 'Conference/Large Meeting', and 'Other' in recent years.  The links below allow you to view and analyse visits, nights, and spend data for these business sub-categories.

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For a detailed discussion of the business tourism sector, take a look at the May 2008 edition of Foresight.

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Detailed Business Tourism Data (xls) Go

This Excel file, in the form of a pivot-table, provides information on visits, visitor nights, and visitor spending for these business visit sub-categories in terms of key variables such as country of residence, mode of travel, and others.  Data is available from 2007-2011.
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Detailed Regional Business Tourism Data (xls) Go

This Excel file, in the form of a pivot-table, provides information on visits, visitor nights, and visitor spending for these business visit sub-categories in each region of the UK.  Data is available from 2007-2011.
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Business Tourism Trends since 1993 (xls) Go

This Excel file provides simple headline trend information from 1993-2011 in the number of visits, nights, and visitor spending by each business visit sub-category.
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Activities Undertaken by Business Visitors 2009 (xls) Go

This Excel file, in the form of a pivot-table provides information on how many business visitors actually participated in various activities when they came to the UK.  Different activities were asked about in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 so check our sponsored questions Excel sheet to find the activity you are looking for!
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Activities Undertaken by Business Visitors 2008 (xls) Go

This Excel file, in the form of a pivot-table provides information on how many business visitors actually participated in various activities when they came to the UK.  Different activities were asked about in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 so check our sponsored questions Excel sheet to find the activity you are looking for!
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Activities Undertaken by Business Visitors 2007 (xls) Go

This Excel file, in the form of a pivot-table provides information on how many business visitors actually participated in various activities when they came to the UK.  Different activities were asked about in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 so check our sponsored questions Excel sheet to find the activity you are looking for!
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Activities Undertaken by Business Visitors 2006 (xls) Go

This Excel file, in the form of a pivot-table provides information on how many business visitors actually participated in various activities when they came to the UK.  Different activities were asked about in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 so check our sponsored questions Excel sheet to find the activity you are looking for!