Understand your visitors.
Strengthen your pool.

300+ Pools
45,000+ Visitors
7 Countries
Measure Impact
Benchmarking
Multilingual

Research and sector partners

Mulier Instituut
Vereniging Sport en Gemeenten
Netwerk Lokaal Sportbeleid

Connect with your visitors through the SwimVox visitor study.

SwimVox gives public swimming pools an effective method for understanding their visitors and their experiences better. The study runs in Austria, Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain.

Make informed decisions

Use visitor data to underpin your choices on your offer, opening hours, infrastructure and communication.

Improve the visitor experience

Discover what visitors value and where there is room for improvement, with concrete suggestions from the open questions.

Demonstrate your value and impact

Support policy conversations and investment decisions with credible, benchmarked figures on the social value of your pool.

Reach new visitor groups

Understand why non-visitors do not come and why lapsed visitors do not return, and how you can reach them.

What you get:

  • Insights into the visitor experience, your offer and your infrastructure
  • The impact of your pool on its visitors (Impact Compass Model)
  • Net Promoter Score and visitor profiles
  • Insights into lapsed visitors and non-visitors
  • Anonymous benchmarking against comparable pools, nationally and across Europe

Why SwimVox:

  • Scientifically grounded, developed with academic partners and the sector
  • Personalised questionnaire, available in four languages
  • Suitable for every public swimming pool, small or large, indoor or outdoor
  • Independent: your results remain entirely confidential
  • Minimal workload for your team, thanks to a ready-to-use process

Register your pool and compare your results nationally and internationally.

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Participation fee

One transparent participation fee, no hidden costs

Thanks to the unique, large-scale approach of this study, the cost of taking part is kept as low as possible. Market rates for comparable research are considerably higher. To share the costs fairly, the fee is based on the number of inhabitants of the municipality in which your pool is located.

Participation fee

Inhabitants of the municipalityParticipation fee
Small: fewer than 20,000 inhabitants€900
Medium: 20,000 to 50,000 inhabitants€975
Large: more than 50,000 inhabitants€1075

Amounts exclude VAT. The budget can be spread over two calendar years. Groups and partnerships of swimming pools receive a tailored offer.

Exchange rates are approximate and are updated periodically.

Everything included

  • Personalised questionnaire, available in four languages
  • Unlimited number of respondents
  • Live dynamic dashboard with filters, cross-tabulations and charts
  • Extensive individual research report
  • Anonymous benchmark against a cluster of comparable pools and against national and European results
  • Communication materials with your personal link and QR code
  • Incentives for respondents: 1 m² of rainforest per completed survey and a prize draw
  • Professional helpdesk for your team and for your visitors

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

SwimVox is a large-scale, independent visitor study for public swimming pools. It was developed with academic partners such as the Mulier Instituut and Ghent University, and with sector organisations such as the Vereniging Sport en Gemeenten and the Netwerk Lokaal Sportbeleid. More than 300 pools have already taken part.

No. The study follows a ready-to-use process in three steps: you confirm your participation, you provide the characteristics of your pool via the research platform, and you promote the survey using the communication materials provided. The research team personalises and sets up your survey.

The participation fee depends on the number of inhabitants of the municipality in which your pool is located and ranges from €900 to €1,075, excluding VAT. Everything is included: questionnaire, dashboard, report, benchmark, communication materials and helpdesk. Groups receive a tailored offer.

Registration is open all year round. After registering, you choose the moment that best suits the way your pool operates. You can run the study over a longer period or choose specific time windows.

The target group consists of the visitors to your pool: swimmers, but also those who come along without swimming themselves, such as parents with children. If you wish, you can also involve lapsed visitors and non-visitors. The dynamic survey recognises these profiles and shows them only the questions that are relevant to them.

Every type of public swimming pool, small or large, indoor or outdoor, whatever its offer, structure or location. The study is scalable: from the smallest municipal pool to the largest aquatic complex. There is a tailored offer for groups of pools.

In Dutch, English, French and German. You choose the languages in which you offer the survey. The number of languages has no effect on the participation fee.

You receive a personal link and QR code, plus communication materials and a briefing on sampling strategies. The survey is fully responsive and works on computers, tablets and smartphones. Around 80 percent of respondents complete the questionnaire in full.

Yes. No personal data is collected from respondents. Your results remain confidential and are shared only with the contact persons you designate. All data is stored on secure servers within the European Union.

Incentives

World Land Trust partnership

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World Land Trust partnership

For every fully completed SwimVox survey, 1 m² of threatened rainforest is protected in partnership with World Land Trust. Together with the final report, you receive an official certificate for the protected rainforest.

In addition, respondents have the chance to win attractive prizes, as an extra incentive to take part.

SwimVox selects winners automatically and anonymously at the end of every completed survey. There is no extra workload or investment for your pool.