British holidaymakers spent £830 per person on the average trip abroad last year, with total spending up 10 per cent on 2023. As a result, the chancellor is facing a wider “balance of tourism” deficit than ever.
UK residents made a record 94.6 million trips abroad in 2024, according to data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The figure is 10 per cent higher than the previous year – and 1.6 per cent up on the pre-Covid peak, reached in 2019.
