Residents of EU Member States made 1.20 billion personal and professional trips in 2025, an increase of 1.4%, or 17 million trips, compared with the previous year, according to new data from Eurostat.
Together, domestic and intra-EU travel accounted for 92% of all trips by EU residents. Of the remaining 8%, which were to destinations outside the EU, fewer than half of those trips were to destinations outside Europe.
According to the data, the EU Member State with the highest share of domestic trips was Romania, with 89%, followed by Spain (87%), while Greece, France and Portugal each recorded a domestic share of 85%.
Luxembourg boasted the lowest proportion of domestic trips, at 5%, followed by Belgium at 29% and Malta at 32%.
Spending patterns
EU residents spent €266.2 billion on domestic trips in 2025, compared with €379.4 billion on trips abroad, the data showed.
In terms of domestic trips. accommodation and transport made up more than half of the expenditure, at 34% (€90.3 billion) and 21% (€56.0 billion), respectively.
In the case of foreign trips, meanwhile, accommodation represented 35% of expenditure, equivalent to €131.3 billion, and transport accounted for 32%, or €121.5 billion.
‘Although domestic trips outnumbered foreign trips, total expenditure was higher for foreign trips,’ Eurostat noted.
Separate recent data from Eurostat indicated that 258.8 million tourism nights in short-term rental accommodation in the EU were booked through online platforms in the second quarter of this year, a 5.3% increase on the same period a year ago. This figure was around 23.9% higher than in the second quarter of 2024, it noted. Read more here.
