1.2 Million Norwegians Spend Summer Holiday at Home

There are 1.2 million Norwegians between the ages of 16 and 79 who spend their summer holiday at home. The percentage of those staying at home has remained virtually unchanged in the 1990s, but is higher than at the end of the 1970s and mid-'80s. Typical stay-at-homers are single, elderly people with a low income and low education living in sparsely populated areas.

Two out of three people who go on summer holiday travel to destinations in Norway, preferably in coastal areas. The car is the most widely used means of transportation. We lodge mostly in cabins in Norway and hotels abroad. The percentage of those vacationing abroad is lower in summer than in the other seasons.

High age

Elderly people over 66 years vacation the least; 62 per cent did not go on summer holiday in 1997. The percentage of this age group not travelling on summer holiday also increased this decade, from 55 per cent in 1992 to 58 per cent in 1994. The group staying home the least during summer holiday is the age group 25-44 years, where less than one out of three spent the summer holiday at home in 1997.

New Statistics

Holiday survey 1997
A more comprehensive presentation of the summer holiday is found in the note: Norwegians' holiday habits. Summer holiday. The note is available on SSB's web site: Feil! Fant ikke referansekilden. under New Statistics. For more information and e-mail, contact: jan-erik.lystad@ssb.no. Phone: +47 62 88 54 10, or tom.granseth@ssb.no. Phone: +47 62 88 54 06.

Weekly Bulletin issue no. 27, 1998