In a sign of Baltic travel recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic and its restrictions, Estonians made 575 000 international trips in 2021, which was 3% more than the year before, official statistics showed.
Statistics Estonia wrote in a press release on Tuesday, March 29, that the number of overnight domestic trips was close to 2.3 million – this is 6% more than in 2020. Last year, the expenditures on outbound trips amounted to over 495 million euros and the expenditures on domestic trips to more than 402 million euros.
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With the increase in the number of trips, the total expenditures on trips grew by 98 million euros. However, compared to the pre-pandemic year 2019, Estonian residents spent nearly 980 million euros less on travel.
Epp Remmelg, analyst at Statistics Estonia, commented that travelling among Estonians increased at the end of the second quarter of 2021, but outbound trips made last year still totalled only a third of the number of outbound trips made in 2019. «The number of outbound overnight trips grew the most in the fourth quarter – by four and a half times compared to the fourth quarter of 2020,» noted Remmelg, according to the press release.
Estonians embarked on foreign travel again in 2021
