Publication - Statistics

Scottish Transport Statistics No 29: 2010 Edition

Published: 20 December 2010
ISBN: 9780755998449

Has figures on (e.g.) road vehicles, traffic, accidents, bus and rail passengers, road and rail freight, air and water transport, finance, personal travel and international comparisons.

Supporting documents

Table 11.26 Scottish residents' visits abroad, by means of leaving the UK^1, purpose of visit, and area visited

by means of leaving the UK
	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
	thousands
All visits abroad by Scots	3,058	3,506	3,714	3,804	3,817	4,218	4,288	4,792	4,738	4,765	3,899
Air Total	2,666	3,110	3,327	3,459	3,569	4,009	4,131	4,562	4,517	4,501	3,674
Edinburgh	349	448	573	454	446	783	767	852	1,077	1,194	1,035
Glasgow	1,380	1,673	1,692	1,954	2,027	2,021	1,721	1,868	1,774	1,742	1,339
Prestwick	..	..	..	..	..	..	566	673	656	644	376
Aberdeen	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	180
Total these airports	1,729	2,121	2,265	2,408	2,473	2,804	3,054	3,393	3,506	3,580	2,931
Heathrow	314	341	373	352	364	435	383	149	117	102	109
Gatwick	188	191	187	167	183	225	186	192	183	215	140
Stanstead	38	51	69	114	121	115	102	109	58	81	47
Manchester	185	148	149	182	164	156	164	159	158	134	130
Newcastle	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	136	176	128	105
Birmingham	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	39	22	18	13
Other UK Airports	212	258	284	236	264	274	242	385	297	243	199
Channel Tunnel	90	60	44	41	54	36	52	55	65	83	63
SeaTotal	302	336	343	304	194	173	105	175	156	182	163
English Channel Ports	194	224	243	213	124	109	57	119	68	107	109
English East Coast Ports	94	89	87	85	61	54	47	45	52	46	37
Other UK Ports	14	23	13	6	9	10	1	11	36	28	16
by purpose of visit
Package holiday	1,560	1,785	1,847	1,978	1,903	1,969	1,580	1,681	1,687	1,512	1,161
Other holiday	817	897	1,007	1,042	1,084	1,212	1,505	1,694	1,643	1,828	1,454
Business	326	374	338	329	305	329	394	383	458	407	397
Visit friends / relatives	282	358	455	391	389	598	692	859	824	913	800
Misc. and other	73	90	68	64	136	110	118	174	126	104	88
by area visited
EU	2,322	2,759	2,985	3,092	3,008	3,204	3,276	3,709	3,662	3,692	2,933
Other Europe	21	15	12	14	29	32	41	61	48	64	50
North America	449	465	455	388	456	497	484	503	465	477	365
Australia & New Zealand	31	32	39	34	32	54	77	60	71	52	57
Asia	74	94	72	80	81	154	128	158	147	154	146
Rest of the World	161	139	153	198	212	277	282	301	345	324	348
*by means of leaving the UK and main* purposes of visits**
Edinburgh, Glasgow, Prestwick & Aberdeen
Package holiday	1,054	1,261	1,280	1,459	1,492	1,504	1,218	1,277	1,322	1,175	895
Other holiday	363	437	547	543	588	727	1,029	1,164	1,148	1,303	1,055
Business	160	173	126	141	126	162	235	199	306	296	289
Visit friends / relatives	141	227	300	248	222	364	513	634	658	749	651
Other UK airport
Package holiday	358	359	364	362	298	394	310	297	284	260	188
Other holiday	300	323	362	392	412	409	413	466	408	398	218
Business	121	146	173	139	152	141	149	163	132	94	40
Visit friends / relatives	117	118	135	133	153	213	160	198	147	135	78
Sea or Channel Tunnel
Package holiday	148	165	204	157	113	71	52	107	81	78	78
Other holiday	153	137	98	107	84	76	63	64	86	127	182
Business	46	54	39	50	27	26	10	21	20	17	67
Visit friends / relatives	23	14	20	10	14	22	19	27	19	29	71
*by main* purposes of visit and area visited**
Package holiday
EU	1,357	1,631	1,661	1,781	1,644	1,653	1,305	1,410	1,366	1,227	898
Elsewhere	203	154	187	197	259	315	275	272	321	285	264
Other holiday
EU	555	630	755	816	841	936	1,186	1,370	1,353	1,503	1,185
Elsewhere	262	267	252	226	244	276	319	324	290	324	268
Business
EU	236	259	249	243	204	235	285	263	356	275	274
Elsewhere	91	115	89	86	101	94	108	120	101	132	123
Visit friends / relatives
EU	128	175	262	201	219	288	407	529	510	609	514
Elsewhere	154	184	194	190	170	310	284	331	314	304	286

1. These estimates are based on information from samples of passengers using the principal routes: the International Passenger Survey does not provide any information about passengers using other routes ( e.g.Rosyth) - see sections 3.14 and 4.4 of the text.
Prestwick airport was added to the International Passenger Survey sample in 2005, so there are no figures for it prior to then.
The results for 2003 and earlier years differ from those published previously because ONS has revised the series retrospectively - for example, the EU/Other Europe breakdown now reflects the position following the enlargement of the EU in 2004.

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Table 11.26 Scottish residents' visits abroad, by means of leaving the UK1, purpose of visit, and area visited

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