# International tourist arrivals in Iceland

International tourist arrivals in Iceland was 2.28 million in 2024. Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

- Indicator id: `international_tourists`
- Place id: `is`
- Unit: count
- Definition: Non-resident visitors who stay at least one night (tourists) arriving in the country. Spain and its regions: INE FRONTUR, by main destination region. Other countries, yearly: OECD inbound tourism table, from frontier statistics or visitor surveys.
- Note: Same-day visitors are not included; overnight and same-day visitors together are international_visitor_arrivals. The OECD series for Spain repeats FRONTUR. Countries count arrivals in different ways, so gaps between countries partly reflect method.
- Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD Inbound tourism: arrivals of non-resident overnight visitors (tourists), tourism demand surveys and frontier statistics (DSD_TOURISM_INTER@DF_INBOUND) (https://data-explorer.oecd.org/vis?df[ds]=dsDisseminateFinalDMZ&df[id]=DSD_TOURISM_INTER%40DF_INBOUND&df[ag]=OECD.CFE.TOU)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/oecd
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- License: OECD data reuse terms: commercial reuse with attribution; dataset-specific restrictions apply
- Citation: OECD. OECD Inbound tourism: arrivals of non-resident overnight visitors (tourists), tourism demand surveys and frontier statistics (DSD_TOURISM_INTER@DF_INBOUND). https://data-explorer.oecd.org/vis?df[ds]=dsDisseminateFinalDMZ&df[id]=DSD_TOURISM_INTER%40DF_INBOUND&df[ag]=OECD.CFE.TOU. Accessed 2026-10-12. Data reuse terms and downstream attribution: https://www.oecd.org/en/about/terms-conditions.html
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/en/international-tourists/iceland
- API: https://invokely.ai/api/v1/series?indicator=international_tourists&place=is

| Period | count |
|---|---:|
| 2024 | 2,279,865 |
| 2023 | 2,235,360 |
| 2022 | 1,717,649 |
| 2021 | 698,070 |
| 2020 | 489,906 |
| 2019 | 2,013,190 |
| 2018 | 2,342,241 |
| 2017 | 2,224,603 |
| 2016 | 1,792,060 |
| 2015 | 1,289,139 |
| 2014 | 997,556 |
| 2013 | 807,349 |
| 2012 | 672,773 |
| 2011 | 565,611 |
| 2010 | 485,016 |
| 2009 | 493,940 |