Glossary

tourist arrivals

tourist arrivals is counts of inbound visitors arriving at a destination, from annual national totals to monthly arrivals by nationality - the headline demand indicator feeding lodging and resort markets. In Datadory's catalog of 1,744 datasets, World Bank - International Tourism Arrivals (ST.INT.ARVL) and US NTTO I-94 International Visitor Arrivals Program are working examples.

What is tourist arrivals?

Counts of inbound visitors arriving at a destination, from annual national totals to monthly arrivals by nationality - the headline demand indicator feeding lodging and resort markets.

In this catalog it appears concretely: - World Bank - International Tourism Arrivals (ST.INT.ARVL) — "Annual international inbound tourist arrivals by country from UN Tourism, republished by the World Bank as World Development Indicators series ST.INT.ARVL". - US NTTO I-94 International Visitor Arrivals Program — "Official US inbound visitor arrival counts by country of residence, visa type, port of entry and mode of travel".

US NTTO I-94 International Visitor Arrivals Program is the second reference point worth knowing: "Official US inbound visitor arrival counts by country of residence, visa type, port of entry and mode of travel". Reading the two together shows how much variation sits underneath one shared label.

Why does tourist arrivals matter when choosing a dataset?

Conventions decide whether two sources can be joined at all. Buy one side of an analysis that ignores this convention and every reconciliation step — calendar alignment, unit conversion, entity matching — lands on your team instead of the vendor's.

The failure mode is concrete: a source can carry the tourist arrivals label while differing from what you need on exactly the dimension that matters — Annual international inbound tourist arrivals by country from UN Tourism, republished by the World Bank as World Development Indicators series ST.INT.ARVL. Comparing two sources on that line usually settles the choice faster than any feature matrix.

You rarely have to take a vendor's word for it. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets Datadory catalogs are free to access, and World Bank - International Tourism Arrivals (ST.INT.ARVL) lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.

How do you evaluate tourist arrivals in a data source?

Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:

  1. Open World Bank - International Tourism Arrivals (ST.INT.ARVL) and confirm its record — "Annual international inbound tourist arrivals by country from UN Tourism, republished by the World Bank as World Development Indicators series ST.INT.ARVL" — against the files you actually receive. 2.

Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - i 94 visitor arrivals - nights spent - tourism receipts

Frequently asked questions

What is an example of tourist arrivals?

World Bank - International Tourism Arrivals (ST.INT.ARVL) is the clearest example in this catalog. Its record states: "Annual international inbound tourist arrivals by country from UN Tourism, republished by the World Bank as World Development Indicators series ST.INT.ARVL". Across all 1,744 datasets Datadory averages a quality score of 7.81 out of 10, so a named example can be weighed rather than trusted blindly.

Is data described as "tourist arrivals" free to use?

Treat access and permission separately. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets in this catalog are free to access, but 235 are freemium and 61 are paid outright, so confirm both the price and the license on the exact distribution before building on it.

How do I verify a source really provides tourist arrivals?

Open World Bank - International Tourism Arrivals (ST.INT.ARVL) next to US NTTO I-94 International Visitor Arrivals Program and compare the promise with the download. Field definitions are verified for 1495 of 1,744 datasets (85.7%), which makes that check fast inside the catalog and manual outside it.

Datasets containing this field

Datasets containing tourist arrivals

6 datasets carry tourist arrivals in the catalog. Open one, count the fields, judge for yourself.

Hotels, Resorts & Cruise Lines

CruiseMapper – Ship Tracker, Schedules & Fleet Database

Hotels, Resorts & Cruise Lines

Eurostat - Capacity of Tourist Accommodation (tour_cap_nat)

freq · accomunit · unit …+4 more

Hotels, Resorts & Cruise Lines

Eurostat – Nights Spent at Tourist Accommodation (tour_occ_arn2)

freq · c_resid · unit …+4 more

Industries

Eurostat Tourism Statistics Explained Hub

tour_dem_tttot · tour_dem_totot · tour_cap_nat …+3 more

Hotels, Resorts & Cruise Lines

Hotel Booking Demand (Kaggle – 119k Portuguese Hotel Bookings)

hotel · is_canceled · lead_time …+29 more

Hotels, Resorts & Cruise Lines

OpenStreetMap Hotels via Overpass Turbo

type · id · lat …+13 more

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