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Thursday, 28.03.2024, 14:24
Number of Finnish tourists' visits to Estonia drops 9% in Q3
More than 2
million foreign tourists visited Estonia in the third quarter of 2017, which is
2% more people than in the same period in the previous year. The number of
tourists coming from Finland declined 9% year-on-year, and for the first time
they accounted for fewer than one third of the total number of visits, the Bank
of Estonia said on Thursday.
The number of visitors from other European
Union increased by 9%. There were notable increases of 69% in the number
of visitors coming from Belgium, of 25% in the number coming from France, and
of 22% in the number from the United Kingdom, which is partly a consequence of
Estonia's presidency of the Council of the European Union.
Over 250,000 visits were made from Russia to Estonia,
which is 2% more than at the same time the previous year. There were 7% more
visits to Estonia from Asian countries, with the number of tourists from China
increasing by one fifth.
The number of overnight visits was 2% higher in the
third quarter than a year earlier, and overnight visitors stayed for an average
of 4.7 days. The number of same-day visitors remained the same and accounted
for 48% of all visits.
Foreign tourists spent an estimated 430 million euros
in Estonia in the third quarter, which is a little more than in the same
quarter of the previous year.
Estonian residents visited foreign countries 1.1
million times in the third quarter of 2017, which is one tenth more than in the
same quarter of the previous year. Of those visits, 80% were within the European
Union. The biggest increases in the number of visits were of 23% to Belgium,
25% to Croatia and 22% to Poland, while the number of visits to Finland was
down by 3%.
The number of visits by Estonian residents to
countries in the CIS was up by one fifth, and 90,000 visits were made to
Russia. Holiday destinations in Turkey again gained popularity, with 74% more
visits made than in the same period the year before.
The number of overnight visits rose by 9%, and the
average length of each trip was 3.8 days. Same-day trips accounted for 13% of
the total, and they increased in number by 11%.
Estonian tourists spent an estimated 250 million euros
abroad in the third quarter, which is 15 million euros more than in the same
quarter a year earlier.