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.

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