Dataset
Arrivals of tourists from abroad for personal purposes
owid.international-trips-for-personal-reasons
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About
Number of international trips where the main purpose is personal (leisure, visiting friends and relatives, health, etc.) 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 personal 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-personal-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_personal_overnight_vis_tourists | number | Arrivals of tourists from abroad for personal purposes (trips) |
| owid_region | text | World region according to OWID |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |