All Island Tourism Statistics Liaison Group CSO releases – HTS and Overseas Travel Patsy King June 2013

Overseas Travel Monthly – up to reference period June 2010 Published detailed country level data Changed to quarterly release from Q onwards Reduced the level of detail published

Quarterly Release Quarter onwards Calendar quarters only Less detail published- fewer individual countries

Change to rolling 3 month release First period : May – July 2011 Same level of detail as in calendar quarter releases Still publish calendar quarter data in release Timeliness - publish 4 to 5 weeks after reference month

Household Travel Survey Traditionally- quarterly data published 2010, annual data only published 2012 – some quarterly data will be published as well as annual data Review of methodology – revise 2010, 2011 data in 2012 release Publish 2012 data- 20 June 2013 Publish Q data – July 2013

HTS methodology- domestic travel Domestic travel- change methodology from 2010 onwards Prior 2010 – results weighted to QNHS estimates – also same calibration was applied to domestic travel as for outbound travel Since results weighted to agree household population estimates by household type (QNHS) only

HTS methodology-outbound travel Outbound Travel- change in methodology from 2010 onwards Results weighted to agree household population estimates by household type (QNHS) Further weighted to frontier survey Tourism and Travel for trips, nights and expenditure- from 2010 onwards only

HTS and TTS (Tourism and Travel Survey)- main differences in results HTS includes travel to Northern Ireland- TTS includes overseas travel only HTS – travel with 1 + overnight stay TTS – covers both same day trips and overnight trips

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