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Progress in Tourism Satellite Account Implementation and Development

Marion Libreros

United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)

Antonio Massieu

UNWTO

Scott Meis

WTO Committee of Statistics and the Macroeconomic Analysis of Tourism

This article reviews the worldwide implementation of tourism satellite accounts (TSA) at the national level to examine the experiences of countries with TSA projects and to identify the problems encountered by those implementing the new 2001 international standard. The study is based on results from responses to a metadata survey sent to national tourism administrations and central statistical offices in 62 countries. The results reveal that an increasing number of countries are developing a TSA following the approach of the UNWTO Tourism Satellite Account: Recommended Methodological Framework (TSA-RMF). Nevertheless, a number of variations exist in the implementation of the TSARMF standard, including the extent of coverage of all forms of visitor consumption and tourism supply as well as differences in the interpretation and treatment of certain key concepts such as business travel, value added, and gross domestic product. These variations limit, for now, the comparability of TSA results between countries.

Key Words: tourism satellite account • economic significance of tourism • visitor consumption • tourism value added • tourism supply • tourism employment

Journal of Travel Research, Vol. 45, No. 1, 83-91 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0047287506289517
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