Tourism survey

The purpose of the statistical activity is to collect information on the travel of Estonian residents and to obtain objective tourism statistics that are comparable between European countries, which will help to increase the potential of the tourism sector in the future. In order to plan actions to strengthen the country's competitiveness and to evaluate the situation of the tourism sector, adequate statistics on trips, tourists, travel expenditure, and economic benefits of tourism are needed.

Probability survey

Overnight domestic and outbound trips of Estonian residents by main purpose of trip, organisation of trip, primary destination, and duration of trip;

number of nights of Estonian residents spent on domestic and outbound trips by type of accommodation;

expenditure on overnight domestic and outbound trips of Estonian residents by main purpose of trip

Classification of Occupations 2008;

Classification of Estonian administrative units and settlements (EHAK);

Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose (COICOP);

Classification of countries and territories;

National Standard Classification of Education 2011

Not applicable

Business trip – a conference, a seminar or a meeting; an educational and study trip; a visit to an exhibition or fair; performing at a concert. Generally a business trip is paid for by the employer or organisation.

Accommodation in camping grounds, recreational vehicle parks and trailer parks – a short-term accommodation in camping grounds, trailer parks, hunting and fishing camps, health camps and other such recreational camps; provision of space and parking facilities for recreational vehicles; shelters, protective shelters or plain bivouac facilities for placing tents and/or sleeping bags

Day trip – domestic or outbound trip without overnight stay

Free accommodation – free private accommodation, including staying at the homes of family members, relatives, or acquaintances, or overnight stays at one's own apartment or house that has been acquired for the purpose of spending holidays, incl. in a residence acquired for personal or company timeshares, etc.

Holiday trip – a personal trip for leisure or recreation purposes, including, for example, a relaxing trip, a trip to engage in a hobby, art or sports, a trip for cultural and entertainment events

Hotel and similar establishment – a hotel, motel, guest house. Accommodation establishments belonging to this category offer daily room cleaning and bed-making, and the accommodation establishment can offer a variety of additional services (catering, parking and laundry service, opportunity to use the swimming pool, gym, conference rooms, recreation rooms, etc.).

Other paid accommodation – accommodation in a campsite, cottage, holiday home, hostel, bed and breakfast, yacht harbour, etc. Additional services are limited.

Other personal trip – visiting a sanatorium or other health-related trip, religious trip, pilgrimage, etc. Other personal trips include study trips, if they are not related to work.

Tourism – the movement of people outside their usual environment for leisure, work, cultural or other purposes and their stay there for up to one year. Trips related to working abroad for more than one year and working as part of the crew of an international means of transport (e.g. cruise ship workers, long-distance drivers) are not considered tourism.

Overnight domestic trip (internal tourism) – trips with overnight stays by permanent residents within their country of residence

Expenditure on an overnight domestic trip – expenses per domestic trip. This includes expenditure on transport for the domestic trip, expenditure on accommodation, on food and drink in cafés and restaurants, and other expenditure (entertainment, purchases, services, incl. durable goods and valuables).

Overnight outbound trip (international tourism) – trips with overnight stays outside the country of residence by permanent residents of a country

Expenditure on an overnight outbound trip – expenses per outbound trip. This includes expenditure on transport for the outbound trip, expenditure on accommodation, on food and drink in cafés and restaurants, and other expenditure (entertainment, purchases, services, incl. durable goods and valuables).

Trip – business trips (meetings, conferences, seminars, further training, etc.), irregular visits to relatives and friends (birthdays, weddings, funerals, graduations, other family celebrations; communal work, etc.), attending cultural events (concerts, theatre performances, sports competitions, etc.), holiday trip (to the beach, skiing, water park, etc.), shopping trip; visiting a summer cottage, country house, parents or children, if this occurs less than once a week during the reference period

Usual environment – the term has two dimensions: geographical proximity and frequency of visits. Places close to the usual place of residence are part of the usual environment, even if they are visited infrequently. Places visited habitually and frequently (on average once a week or more) are part of the usual environment, even if they are located quite far from the usual place of residence (even in another country). Irregular weekend and holiday trips to the household's second home (owned or rented) are included under tourism.

Visiting a friend or relative – participating in family gatherings (a funeral, wedding, helping in work, etc.)

For collecting data on participation in tourism, the statistical unit is the individual;

for collecting data on tourism trips and day trips, the statistical unit is the trip made by the individual.

The population includes permanent residents of Estonia aged 15 years and over who live in private households. Persons living in institutions are excluded from the survey in order to improve the comparability of Estonian and Eurostat data. Persons living in institutions include, for example, those in prisons, hospitals, conscript service, etc.

Estonia as a whole

2006–…

Not applicable

Year;

quarter

Official Statistics Act;

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/1681 of 1 August 2019 amending Regulation (EU) No 692/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning European statistics on tourism, as regards the transmission deadlines and adaptation of Annexes I and II (Text with EEA relevance);

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 253/2013 of 15 January 2013 amending Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 692/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards adaptations following the revision of the International Standard Classification of Education ISCED in relation to the variables and breakdowns to be submitted (Text with EEA relevance);

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1051/2011 of 20 October implementing Regulation (EU) No 692/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning European statistics on tourism, as regards the structure of the quality reports and the transmission of the data (Text with EEA relevance);

Regulation (EU) No 692/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 2011 concerning European statistics on tourism and repealing Council Directive 95/57/EC (Text with EEA relevance);

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1179 of 16 July 2021 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1051/2011 as regards the aggregate tables and micro-data files for the transmission of the data (Text with EEA relevance);

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 81/2013 of 29 January 2013 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1051/2011 as regards the micro-data files for the transmission of data (Text with EEA relevance).

With each publication, the data files requested by Eesti Pank (Bank of Estonia) are forwarded to them no later than the last day of the month in which the quarterly data are published.