BTA2076 Hotel Occupancy Data

VB/VE is the national tourism agency, a non-departmental public body funded by the Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) and our mission is to make tourism one of the most successful and productive sectors for the UK economy. We achieve this by supporting England's tourism industry, driving inbound visitor spend, providing expert advice to industry and to Government.

VB/VE research utilises a range of travel and tourism statistics to monitor and predict international and domestic tourism flows.

Hotel occupancy data continues to provide key insights for us as an organisation and we would like to refresh this supply and potentially enhance it with additional features.

The hotel occupancy data we currently subscribe to has been published monthly in PDF format on our website here: https://www.visitbritain.org/research-insights/england-hotel-occupancy-latest The archive reports are available here: https://www.visitbritain.org/research-insights/england-hotel-occupancy-archive

As part of our new data sources project, we identified the following business needs:

• Timeliness (monitoring inbound and domestic tourism at a shorter latency)
• Granularity (examining tourism behaviour across nations/regions with greater detail, specifically counties and Local Authorities which feed into the new LVEP areas)
• Being forward looking (predicting future tourism flows with greater confidence)

We have found that hotel occupancy data has the capacity to meet the need of timeliness to a point as we currently receive frequent and timely data deliveries. However, it does lack particularly on granularity. Granularity is a key need with the ability to drill down into small regional geographies. With this data source, the provision of forward-looking data is, while not essential, also useful. We would like to retain and enhance our hotel occupancy data package in order to best meet these needs.

Interested suppliers can access the procurement documentation for this opportunity free of charge via the Atamis eprocurement system: https://visitbritain.force.com/s/Welcome

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