Produced by Sheffield Hallam’s Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research this is the fifth in a series of reports on the real level of unemployment published at intervals since 1997. The new report, like its predecessors, provides estimates for every local authority district in Great Britain, deploying essentially the same methods as in the earlier studies but with a number of important refinements. The central question remains the same: what is the real level of unemployment in the UK? Although not specifically a tourism report the findings may have some profound implication for some of the UK’s most popular tourist destinations: