The International Passenger Survey (IPS) collects information about passengers entering and leaving the UK, and has been running continuously since 1961.
Wales received 892,000 visits in 2023, down 13% on 2019 but up 30% on 2022, whilst spend reached £458m in 2023, down 11% on 2019, but up 16% on 2022. Wales remains the only UK nation to not recover spend figures from 2019.
Wales has received the lowest visitor and spend figures across the UK except for the North East of England since 2019, except for spend figures in 2019 when the East Midlands region reported slightly lower figures putting Wales into third lowest.
https://www.gov.wales/international-inbound-visits-and-spend-wales-html
