2023 Projects

Keeping count of every passenger who enters and exits the UK is both a time and cost intensive task undertaken by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). This article explores how the ONS' survey methodology could be replaced using alterative data sources to generate the same statistics.

This work is part of a joint project between the University of Leeds and the Office for National Statistics (ONS), with the goal of discontinuing the annual International Passenger Survey (IPS), which gathers travel and tourism statistics. Instead, the same information would be collected through alternative data sources as well as statistical and machine learning methods.

Aditi Sudhakar

The Hospitality sector in the UK was one of the worst hit by the pandemic with tourist accommodation hosts recording up to 20% declines in profits at the height of the pandemic. As such, the UK government introduced a hospitality strategy to revive the industry to its pre-pandemic glory.

Working in line with this strategy, this project classifies hosts and properties with the aim of re-building guest confidence and increasing host compliance with policy.

Favour Aghaebe

Investigating the online discourse around financial hardship and product shortages on social media, our research aims to reveal the nuanced ways the cost-of-living crisis and supply chain disruptions affect public sentiment and well-being, highlighting a need for targeted interventions to support those most vulnerable.

This project seeks to find solutions to alleviate these adverse effects by analysing the evolution of discourse around financial and product scarcity on social media.

Liam Bailey