How did the economic crisis hit tourism? - Product - Eurostat

How did the economic crisis hit tourism? - Product - Eurostat

(...) Between 2007 and 2015, the number of trips made by EU tourists for personal purposes (leisure, holidays or visiting friends and relatives) remained roughly stable at around 1 billion trips per year. On the other hand, the number of business trips declined, possibly because of a reduction in travel budgets and because more sustainable, time and cost efficient means of communicating are now widespread. Between 2007 and 2015, the number of business trips dropped by 40% (or -6.3% on average per year), from 206 million in 2007 to 123 million in 2015. (...)