UKinbound – Business Barometer Survey

UKinbound members consist of approximately 350 tourism organisations who target inbound visitors to the UK. Set up in 2010, the Business Barometer is a quarterly online and telephone survey which provides….

  • Industry ‘confidence measure’ relating to expected future bookings
  • Performance tracker of member organisations
  • Bespoke ‘issue of the moment’ evaluator for PR purposes

Outputs are communicated by:

  • Quarterly report produced by Qa which is uploaded to the members area of the website
  • Report link included in members’ e-newsletter
  • Results disseminated to external stakeholders: tourism bodies, Govt departments, media

Outcomes enable UKinbound to:

  • Generate PR stories that raise the profile of the inbound tourism sector
  • Lobby Government to influence policy to help grow inbound tourism
  • Inform national tourism bodies of the inbound tourism sector business levels
  • Advise members on key growth markets & how to penetrate them
  • Provides ongoing dialogue with inbound market on how to improve

UKinbound uses the data in different ways:

  • 6 monthly presentation to Members at General Meetings
  • UKinbound website promoting each quarterly report to members
  • Press releases on UKinbound’s website – news items

Business Barometer Q1 2023 – UKinbound

  • And example of our BB report can be found here:

UKinbound_Report_Qa_Research_2023