the tenants. there are fewer professional salons than tanning facilities; the latter includes tanning beds in gyms, spas and similar. according to the fda, citing the indoor tanning association, there were 25,000 tanning salons in 2010 in the us (population 308.7 million in 2010). mailing-list data suggest there were 18,200 in september 2008 and 12,200 in september 2015, a decline of 30 percent. according to chris sternberg of the american suntanning association, the figures are 18,000 in 2009 and 9,500 in 2016. the south west public health observatory found 5,350 tanning salons in the uk in 2009: 4,492 in england (population 52.6 million in 2010), 484 in scotland (5.3 million), 203 in wales (3 million) and 171 in northern ireland (1.8 million). reasons overview