Economy Tourism Spend API
Returns yearly spending by a country's residents on trips of one night or more, split into transport, accommodation, restaurants and other categories, in euro.
GET /v1/economy/tourism-spendLast updated November 2026Maintained by the SocialCrawl team
When to use the Economy Tourism Spend API
Use it to see where travel money goes and how business and personal trips differ, then compare countries or years.
From the API reference
Returns annual spending by a country's residents on tourism trips of one night or more, broken down by what the money went on, from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. Categories are total (excluding durables), transport, restaurants, accommodation, package (package arrangements), other and durables. Filter by purpose (personal or business), by destination (domestic, foreign or world), and choose whether to read the total spend or the average per_trip or per_night. Values are in euro (not millions). Results come back as data.series[], one per country and category, each with points[] of { year, value }. A year Eurostat has not published for a country is null, never 0. The response echoes the purpose, destination and measure that were applied, plus dataset, unit and a source_note. This is spending by residents of the reporting country (the demand side), not spending received by a destination.
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What can you do with the Tourism Spend API?
The Tourism Spend endpoint gives you structured Economy data with computed fields in a single request. No scraping infrastructure to build or maintain.
Example Request
# GET /v1/economy/tourism-spend: 1 credit per call. Cache hits are free and failed calls are refunded.
# Check the price first for 0 credits: add dry_run=1 to the query. Nothing is fetched or charged.
# --max-time 60: the API's own time limit for this endpoint.
# --retry 3: retries timeouts, 429 and 5xx, honoring Retry-After.
# -o response.json keeps only the final attempt's body.
# One Idempotency-Key per request, reused on every retry, so a retried call is never charged twice.
IDEMPOTENCY_KEY=$(od -An -N16 -tx1 /dev/urandom | tr -d ' \n')
curl -sS --max-time 60 --retry 3 -o response.json \
-H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Idempotency-Key: $IDEMPOTENCY_KEY" \
"https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/economy/tourism-spend?country_code=DE%2CFR&category=total%2Caccommodation%2Ctransport&purpose=business&measure=total&from_year=2022" && cat response.json# GET /v1/economy/tourism-spend: 1 credit per call. Cache hits are free and failed calls are refunded.
# Check the price first for 0 credits: add dry_run=1 to the query. Nothing is fetched or charged.
import os
import random
import time
import uuid
import requests
API_KEY = os.environ.get("SOCIALCRAWL_API_KEY", "YOUR_API_KEY")
TIMEOUT_S = 60 # the API's own time limit for this endpoint.
MAX_RETRIES = 3
URL = "https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/economy/tourism-spend"
def backoff(attempt):
# Exponential backoff with jitter: about 1 s, 2 s, then 4 s.
return 2 ** attempt * (0.5 + random.random() / 2)
def socialcrawl(params):
# One Idempotency-Key per request, reused on every retry, so a retried call is never charged twice.
idempotency_key = str(uuid.uuid4())
for attempt in range(MAX_RETRIES + 1):
try:
res = requests.get(
URL,
params=params,
headers={"x-api-key": API_KEY, "Idempotency-Key": idempotency_key},
timeout=TIMEOUT_S,
)
body = res.json()
except (requests.RequestException, ValueError):
# A timeout, a dropped connection or a non-JSON gateway page: retry with the same key.
if attempt == MAX_RETRIES:
raise
time.sleep(backoff(attempt))
continue
if body["success"]:
return body
error = body["error"]
# Branch on error["type"], never on the message text.
if error["type"] == "RESOURCE_NOT_FOUND":
return None # refunded: nothing to read
retry_after = res.headers.get("Retry-After")
# SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE without Retry-After is a withdrawn endpoint: permanent.
permanent = error["type"] == "SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE" and retry_after is None
if not error.get("retryable") or permanent or attempt == MAX_RETRIES:
raise RuntimeError(f"{error['type']}: {error['message']} (request_id {body['request_id']})")
# Retry-After (seconds) wins; otherwise back off.
time.sleep(float(retry_after) if retry_after else backoff(attempt))
params = {
"country_code": "DE,FR",
"category": "total,accommodation,transport",
"purpose": "business",
"measure": "total",
"from_year": "2022",
}
body = socialcrawl(params)
if body is not None:
print(body["data"])// GET /v1/economy/tourism-spend: 1 credit per call. Cache hits are free and failed calls are refunded.
// Check the price first for 0 credits: add dry_run=1 to the query. Nothing is fetched or charged.
const API_KEY = process.env.SOCIALCRAWL_API_KEY ?? "YOUR_API_KEY";
const TIMEOUT_MS = 60_000; // the API's own time limit for this endpoint.
const MAX_RETRIES = 3;
type Page = { next_cursor: string | null; has_more: boolean };
type SocialCrawlResponse =
| { success: true; data: any; pagination?: Page; credits_used: number; request_id: string }
| { success: false; error: { type: string; message: string; retryable: boolean }; request_id: string };
const sleep = (ms: number) => new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
// Exponential backoff with jitter: about 1 s, 2 s, then 4 s.
const backoffMs = (attempt: number) => 2 ** attempt * 1000 * (0.5 + Math.random() / 2);
async function socialcrawl(url: URL) {
// One Idempotency-Key per request, reused on every retry, so a retried call is never charged twice.
const idempotencyKey = crypto.randomUUID();
for (let attempt = 0; ; attempt++) {
let res: Response;
let body: SocialCrawlResponse;
try {
res = await fetch(url, {
headers: {
"x-api-key": API_KEY,
"Idempotency-Key": idempotencyKey,
},
signal: AbortSignal.timeout(TIMEOUT_MS),
});
body = (await res.json()) as SocialCrawlResponse;
} catch (error) {
// A timeout, a dropped connection or a non-JSON gateway page: retry with the same key.
if (attempt >= MAX_RETRIES) throw error;
await sleep(backoffMs(attempt));
continue;
}
if (body.success) return body;
// Branch on error.type, never on the message text.
if (body.error.type === "RESOURCE_NOT_FOUND") return null; // refunded: nothing to read
const retryAfter = res.headers.get("Retry-After");
// SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE without Retry-After is a withdrawn endpoint: permanent.
const permanent = body.error.type === "SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE" && retryAfter === null;
if (!body.error.retryable || permanent || attempt >= MAX_RETRIES) {
throw new Error(`${body.error.type}: ${body.error.message} (request_id ${body.request_id})`);
}
// Retry-After (seconds) wins; otherwise back off.
await sleep(retryAfter ? Number(retryAfter) * 1000 : backoffMs(attempt));
}
}
const url = new URL("https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/economy/tourism-spend");
url.searchParams.set("country_code", "DE,FR");
url.searchParams.set("category", "total,accommodation,transport");
url.searchParams.set("purpose", "business");
url.searchParams.set("measure", "total");
url.searchParams.set("from_year", "2022");
const body = await socialcrawl(url);
if (body) console.log(body.data);Parameters
| Parameter | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| country_code | Yes | One or more ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes of the travellers' home country, comma-separated (up to 10), e.g. `DE,FR`. `EU27` returns the European Union total. |
| category | No | Spending categories, comma-separated. Any of total, transport, restaurants, accommodation, package, other, durables. Defaults to all seven. |
| purpose | No | Trip purpose: `total` (default), `personal` or `business`. (total | personal | business) |
| destination | No | Where the trip went: `world` (default, all trips), `domestic` or `foreign`. (world | domestic | foreign) |
| measure | No | `total` spend (default), the average `per_trip` or the average `per_night`. (total | per_trip | per_night) |
| from_year | No | First year to return. Defaults to five years before the current year. |
| to_year | No | Last year to return. Defaults to the latest year Eurostat has. |
What does the Economy Tourism Spend API return?
Every response follows one unified schema. Here is a real, unmodified response body, so you can see the exact fields you get back before spending a credit.
Example response
{
"success": true,
"platform": "economy",
"endpoint": "/v1/economy/tourism-spend",
"data": {
"dataset": {
"id": "tour_dem_extot",
"label": "Expenditure by duration, purpose, main destination of the trip and expenditure category",
"updated": "2026-05-08T21:00:00.000Z"
},
"unit": {
"code": "eur",
"label": "Euro"
},
"purpose": "business",
"destination": "world",
"measure": "total",
"series": [
{
"country": "DE",
"country_name": "Germany",
"category": "total",
"category_label": "Total excluding durables and valuable goods",
"points": [
{
"year": 2022,
"value": 23125579039
},
{
"year": 2023,
"value": 24030088058
}
]
},
{
"country": "DE",
"country_name": "Germany",
"category": "accommodation",
"category_label": "Expenditure on accommodation",
"points": [
{
"year": 2022,
"value": 10083799766
},
{
"year": 2023,
"value": 10048193185
}
]
}
],
"source_note": "Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, dataset tour_dem_extot. Eurostat permits free reuse with attribution. A null value means Eurostat has not published that year for that country; the latest years are often provisional. Figures are spending by residents of the reporting country on trips of one night or more, grouped by the main destination of the trip."
},
"credits_used": 1,
"request_id": "req_example000000",
"cached": false,
"credits_remaining": 9999,
"source": "captured",
"captured_at": "2026-10-03T18:35:29.452Z",
"redacted": true
}Live sample illustrating the unified response shape. Field values reflect the record you query.
How does the Economy Tourism Spend API work?
Send a GET request with your API key and get back clean, structured JSON in our unified schema. Supported computed fields are populated when the source provides the required inputs.
Method
GET
Response
JSON
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}Have a question? We got answers
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