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Women travel more than men
Norwegian women travelled on 2.8 million holiday trips of minimum 4 nights duration in 2002. Their holiday trips constituted 26.2 million overnight stays.
In total the Norwegians aged 16-79 years went on 5.4 million holiday trips in the holiday year 2002 (i.e. from November 2001 to October 2002). This was an increase of 7 per cent compared with the holiday year 2001.
Norwegian women constituted a good 52 per cent of all holiday trips. Their share of the total number of holiday trips increased slightly by 0.5 percentage point compared with 2001. The share of the total number of overnight stays on holiday trips by gender remained stable in the same period. In total Norwegians were away on holiday trips 50.5 million nights. This was a fall by 2 million nights from the previous year.
In the choice of holiday destination there was a significant change from 2001 to 2002. In 2001 Norwegian women made about 52 per cent of all holiday trips regardless if the holiday was spent in Norway or abroad. The year after the share of holiday trips in Norway increased to almost 55 per cent, while the share of outbound holiday trips fell to less than 50 per cent in this group.
Regardless of gender most holidaymakers went abroad in 2002.1As in earlier years, Spain, Greece, Denmark and Sweden were the most visited countries.
Short holiday trips more popular
3.2 million holiday trips in 2002 lasted between 4 and 7 nights. This is a growth by 0.3 million holiday trips compared with the previous year. In other words, 3 out of 4 holiday trips of the growth in holiday trips were in this group.
The number of overnight stays for the shortest holiday trips constituted 17.2 million nights. The share of total overnight stays was 34 per cent. In 2001 the share was almost 4 percentage points lower.
On average the holidaymakers went on holiday 20.1 nights. This is a decrease by less than 2 per cent from 20.5 nights in the year before. The average number of overnight stays per holiday trip on the other hand went down by almost 10 per cent to 9.4 overnight stays per holiday trip.
Most people went on 1 holiday trip
75 per cent of all Norwegians went on 1 or more holiday trips in 2002. This constituted a good 2.5 million people. In comparison with 2001 the decrease was under 2 per cent. The decrease was greatest among those with 1 holiday trip, but it was still most common to go on 1 holiday trip a year.
Summertime=holiday time
The summer was the most popular time to go on holiday. An entire 63 per cent of the Norwegian population made holiday trips in the months May, June, July and August 2002. This share has stayed fairly stable the last decade.
Those living in the regions Akershus and Oslo, Western Norway and Trøndelag travelled most. Here 70, 66 and 65 per cent of the inhabitants went on holiday respectively.
In total 3.1 million holiday trips had their departure in the summer months. A majority had Norway as the main destination; 1.6 million holiday trips took place here.
1 | Corrected 26 June 2003 at 4 p.m. |
Tables:
- Table 1 Number of people on holiday, by main destination in different population groups. 2002. 1 000
- Table 2 Number of holiday trips by main destination and different criteria. 2002. 1 000
- Table 3 Percentage of people, by number of holiday trips and average number of holiday trips per person in different population groups. 2002
- Table 4 Number of holiday trips, by main destination in different population groups. 2002. 1 000
- Table 5 Number of nights spent on holiday, by main destination and average number of nights spent on holiday per person and per trip by different criteria. 2002
- Table 6 Percentage of people on holiday, by season in different population groups. 2002
The statistics is published with Travel survey.
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