Domestic and outbound tourist trips in three quarters of 2008

1. Number of trips

Foreign departures of Polish tourists by visited countries (million)

	Three quarters of 2007	Three quarters of 2008
Total number of tourist trips	5.25	5.35
Germany	1.15	1.20
The Czech Republic	0.25	0.45
Great Britain	0.60	0.35
Croatia	0.25	0.30
Netherlands	0.20	0.30
Slovakia	0.40	0.30
France	0.35	0.25
Lithuania	0.15	0.25
Italy	0.20	0.25
Austria	0.25	0.20
Egypt	0.10	0.20
Greece	0.15	0.20
Spain	0.15	0.20
Belgium	0.20	0.15
Ireland	0.15	0.15
Russia	*	0.15
Hungary	0.10	0.15
Belarus	*	0.10
Bulgaria	0.15	0.10
Denmark	0.20	0.10
Norway	0.15	0.10
Sweden	0.10	0.10
Turkey	*	0.10
Ukraine	0.20	0.10
Other	0.50	0.50

* Below 0.1 m.
Attention: the sum of visits in individual countries was larger than the number of tourist trips, because the part of persons during one journey visited a few countries.  
Source: estimates on the basis of the questionnaire survey of the Institute of the Tourism.

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Number of domestic trips by resindents (million)

	I-IX 2007	I-IX 2008	change 08 / 07
Long-term	13.7	12.55	- 8 %
Short-term	14.55	16.85	16 %
Domestic with the whole	28.25	29.40	4 %

Source: estimates on the basis of the questionnaire survey of the Institute of the Tourism.

Number of domestic nights by resindents (million)

	I-IX 2007	I-IX 2008	change 08 / 07
Long-term	119.3	114.7	- 4 %
Short-term	27.1	33.0	22 %
Domestic with the whole	146.4	147.7	1 %

Source: estimates on the basis of the questionnaire survey of the Institute of the Tourism.

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Long domestic trips by visited voivodships (mill)

Source: monthly surveys by the Institute of Tourism

Domestic short breaks by visited voivodships (mill)

Source: monthly surveys by the Institute of Tourism

All domestic trips by visited voivodships (mill)

Source: monthly surveys by the Institute of Tourism
Note: total number of visits is greater than the number od trips, as some people visited more than one voivodship.

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In three quarters of 2008 the typical tourism was a purpose of nearly 40% domestic trips. Out of all of them, 11.4 million have been made for typically tourist purposes, of which about 60% constituted long-term trips, and 40% – short-breaks.

Over a half of foreign departures of Poles were typical tourism trips. That kind of departures accounted for some 2.8 million (2.2 m in 2007 r.); the number of business trips is being estimated for about 1.1 million.

2. Purposes of domestic long trips

Source: monthly surveys by the Institute of Tourism

 

3. Purposes of domestic short trips

Source: monthly surveys by the Institute of Tourism

 

4. Purposes of outbound trips

Source: monthly surveys by the Institute of Tourism

 

5. Accommodation used during domestic long trips

Source: monthly surveys by the Institute of Tourism

 

6. Accommodation used during domestic short trips

Source: monthly surveys by the Institute of Tourism

 

7. Tourist expenditures in three quarters of 2008 (PLN)

Average per trip

Average per day

Source: monthly surveys by the Institute of Tourism

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