Dataset
Arrivals of tourists from abroad for business purposes
owid.international-trips-for-business-and-professional-reasons
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About
Number of international trips where the main purpose is business-related and the visitor stays overnight. Regions defined by Our World in Data, which are used in OWID charts and maps.
Cite as: UN Tourism (2025) – processed by Our World in Data. “Arrivals of tourists from abroad for business purposes” [dataset]. UN Tourism, “UN Tourism Statistics Database” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 1995–2024
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- 2026-01-21
- Units
- trips
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/international-trips-for-business-and-professional-reasons
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| in_tour_purpose_trips_by_business_overnight_vis_tourists | number | Arrivals of tourists from abroad for business purposes (trips) |
| owid_region | text | World region according to OWID |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |