Shaping the Future of Travel and Tourism
We combine a deep understanding of travel and tourism dynamics with rigorous economics to help destinations, developers, and strategic planners. We uncover opportunities for growth, identify and mitigate risk, and solve their challenges.
Tourism Economics website
2060
forecast horizon
200+
countries covered
180,000+
market indicators tracked
4,000+
of the world's most popular air routes
The future of travel and tourism
Our travel and tourism services cover global travel activities to help you understand the economic impact of tourism, as well as current market trends and outlook.
Tourism Economics
Tourism Economics, an Oxford Economics company, focuses on the intersection of the economy and travel sector, providing actionable insights to our clients.
We provide our worldwide client base with direct access to the most comprehensive set of historic and forecast travel data. Our specialist economists develop custom economic impact studies, policy analysis, forecast models and alternative scenario outcomes.
How our tourism services help you
- Plan for expected shifts in opportunity across source markets
- Evaluate destinations’ dependence on international vs. domestic travel
- Pull destination rankings for visitor volume and growth prospects
- Understand changes in destination market share
- Analyse the different tourist landscapes of competing destinations
- Plan and adjust investments in infrastructure
Essential tourism indicators
Tourism Economics covers over 100,000 indicators of tourism activity both for inbound, outbound and domestic travel including:
- Visits by trip purpose and mode of transportation
- Travel spending by purpose
- Origin-destination flows – visits and nights across major origin and destination pairs
- Economic and demographic forecasts – the drivers behind the forecast model
Cruise Intelligence Platform
The most comprehensive global cruise industry database available, covering current and future trends for both supply and demand.
Tourism services
Detailed and comparable inbound and outbound travel data by country and city.
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Cruise Intelligence Platform
The new Cruise IP database, available from Tourism Economics, is designed to help understand the challenges facing the cruise sector as activity is restarting with higher capacity.
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Global City Travel
Detailed and comparable inbound and outbound travel intelligence for 300+ cities globally.
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Global Travel Service
Detailed travel and tourism market trends and forecasts for 185 countries globally.
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Air Passenger Forecasts
Passenger forecasts for the 4,000 most travelled air routes across the world.
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International State Travel
Travel data covering international visits and nights by source country to the 50 states of the USA.
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Global Highlights & Risks
Global recovery from the pandemic will be further deferred due to effects from the Russian invasion of Ukraine and we now expect global international arrivals to regain 2019 levels by 2025 instead of by 2024 on average. The largest change is evident in the European travel outlook, with impacts strongly weighted towards Eastern Europe.
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Resources and Events
Research Briefing
Minimal Impact on Industry from Trump Travel Bans
Research Briefing
Negative Outlook for US Inbound Travel Hasn’t Budged
Research Briefing
US Tourism and the Negative Externalities from Trade Tensions
Research Briefing
Inbound Travel to US in Steep Decline
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Global travel outlook: navigating tariff-driven challenges in 2025
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The US Lodging Industry: Outlook for 2025 and Beyond
Webinar
ETC European tourism trends and prospects: Q2 2025
Webinar
Air passenger demand outlook
Global Tourism Outlook in 2023
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