Measuring Total Tourism Demand: General Guidelines for Developing the Tourism Satellite Account

Measuring Total Tourism Demand: General Guidelines for Developing the Tourism Satellite Account - Vol. 1

The General Guidelines for Developing the Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) (Volume 1 and 2) are designed for those countries interested in implementing a TSA. They provide basic information on concepts, definitions, classifications and possible sources of information to be used. The Guidelines also explain how the proposed tables should be elaborated thus ensuring that harmonization and comparability of tourism results can be reached at the international level. Volume 1 focuses on tourism aspects from the demand perspective and contains two documents: (1) Measuring Visitor Final Consumption Expenditure in Cash covers the estimate of the most important component of visitor consumption: the value of the products purchased by visitors out of their own cash income while traveling on trips away from home, and expenditure engaged before and after the trip and related to it. This document provides guidance for the completion of TSA tables 1, 2 and 3. (2) Measuring Tourism Demand , studies first of all the remaining components of visitor consumption, mainly, expenditure in kind. Secondly, it intends to guide countries in the determination and compilation of the other components of total tourism demand: tourism collective consumption and tourism gross fixed capital formation. This document provides guidance for the completion of TSA tables 4, 8 and 9.

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Tourism Satellite Account: Recommended Methodological Framework

Tourism Satellite Account: Recommended Methodological Framework

Aiming at preparing a sound basis for the international assessment of the economic impact of tourism, the World Tourism Organization prepared in collaboration with the Statistical Office of the European Communities and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development this Recommended Methodological Framework, adopted by United Nations Statistical Commission in 2000. The publication describes in a comprehensive and practical manner a set of recommendations for countries, wishing to implement the Tourism Satellite Accounts. It includes the basic system of classifications, general guidelines, definitions, tables and aggregates linked to the standard tables of the United Nations System of National Accounts. The Tourism Satellite Account - Recommended Methodological Framework is an invaluable and useful tool for anyone interested in the analysis of the economic importance of tourism.

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See also:

• System of Tourism Statistics
• Tourism Satellite Account

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International Tourist Arrivals and Tourism Receipts by Region and Country

Tourism Indicators » Inbound Tourism » International Tourist Arrivals & Tourism Receipts by country

International Tourist Arrivals :

• Africa : Download (pdf)
• The Americas : Download (pdf)
• Asia and the Pacific : Download (pdf)
• Europe : Download (pdf)
• Middle East : Download (pdf)

International Tourism Receipts (US$)

• Africa : Download (pdf)
• The Americas : Download (pdf)
• Asia and the Pacific : Download (pdf)
• Europe : Download (pdf)
• Middle East : Download (pdf)

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System of Tourism Statistics (STS)

A System of Tourism Statistics (STS) should be understood, as that part of the National Statistical System (NSS) providing reliable, consistent and appropriate statistical information on the socio-economic aspects related to tourism, integrated within all the economic and social statistics related to other fields, at different territorial levels (national –or federal, where appropriate-, infra-national and international).

The design of a national STS should be viewed as the basic coordination and integration framework of the statistical information produced by all tourism stakeholders. Concepts, definitions, classifications, data, indicators, aggregates and table of results relating to tourism, designed so as to provide an exhaustive description of the tourism phenomenon in all its aspects (physical, social, economic, etc.) and a measurement of its economic contribution within a context of international comparability are a structural part of the NSS.

The new International Recommendations for Tourism Statistics 2008 (IRTS 2008) and 2008 Tourism Satellite Account: Recommended Methodological Framework (TSA:RMF 2008) constitute the updated reference framework for the STS. As a consequence, they should be used as a reference for harmonization, coordination and integration of available tourism statistical information, although this information might extend in the coming years beyond the still restricted domain these recommendations touch upon: for instance, by extending the concept of consumption to include other components of demand (such as collective consumption and gross fixed capital formation), by developing the sub-national perspective, by developing the link with other statistical system such as that on environmental issues, etc.

For a more detailed description see:

• The System of Tourism Statistics and its links with the National Statistical System
• International comparability and national systems of tourism statistics: the basic information network

Source: www.unwto.org

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Tourism Expenditure

Tourism Expenditure: is the total consumption expenditure made by a visitor or on behalf of a visitor for and during his/her trip and stay at destination. (UNWTO)

Technical Manual of Collection of Tourism Expenditure Statistics in pdf file:

• Collection of Tourism Expenditure Statistics.pdf
  

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Why Tourism Satellite Account is Necessary?

Statistical reasons:

Unlike output defined industries, such as agriculture or manufacturing, the primarily demand-defined tourism industry is not measured as a sector in its own right in National Accounts. Most of the statistical information provided on the specifics and developments of tourism is primarily based on arrivals and overnight stay statistics as well as balance of payments information.

Economic policy reasons:
Europe is the tourist destination N° 1 in the world. Depending on the definition of the tourism sector it employs between about 8.6 and 24 million people in the Community (corresponding to around 4 and 11 % of total labour force) and creates 4 or 11 % of the Community’s GDP.

This major economic importance of tourism for the economy - made evident by some TSA-based estimations - increased the awareness of the importance of the sector, its socio-cultural and environmental impacts as well as its contributions to the achieving of the goals of the Lisbon strategy - to increase economic growth and to create more and better jobs.

The currently available statistics, however, do not sufficiently grasp the whole economic phenomenon of tourism.

History
In the late 1980s the OECD, UN and WTO encouraged the evolution of a tourism specific economic data system which is coherent with the concepts, classifications and definitions of national accounting standards. A Recommended Methodological Framework was concluded between UN, OECD, the World Tourism Organisation and Eurostat in 2000 and published by the UN in 2001.

EUROSTAT worked out an implementation manual for the EU with the aim to provide operational guidelines for empirical compilation of the TSA in an efficient procedure.

Source: Source: European Commission, Enterprise and Industry Tourism

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