Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the value to the economy of domestic tourism was in (a) 2012, (b) 2013 and (c) 2014.

Since 2010, domestic tourism spend in England has grown by 14.1% - from £56.7bn* to £64.7bn in 2013. Domestic tourism spend in 2012 was a record-breaking £67,956m. We will not have a final figure for 2014 until next year. Overall, Deloitte estimated that the tourism industry was worth £127 billion GVA to the UK economy in 2013, £58 billion of which is ‘direct’ contribution.

Source: http://www.visitengland.org/insight-statistics/major-tourism-surveys/overnightvisitors/ ; http://www.visitengland.org/insight-statistics/major-tourism-surveys/dayvisitors/

*this is based on an estimate as there was no day visit survey in 2010