[Day 1: Tuesday, 02 December, 2014]

09:00-11:00 Session 3: Outbound Tourism Statistics

• 09:00-11:00 Session 3: Outbound Tourism Statistics

• ► Outbound Tourism Statistics Presenter: UNWTO

• Outbound tourism sometimes includes multi-destination trips, i.e. to more than one country. It must therefore be decided whether to collect information on each country visited, and if so, how much information. For example, is it sufficient to merely identify the individual countries visited, without breaking down the data on other characteristics, such as purpose of trip, length of stay or expenditure? Or should such details be covered for each country visited? The answer will depend on the data needed and the resources available for collecting it.

• An alternative approach in some countries is to identify the main country visited only (the one central to the decision to take the trip), at the expense of understating the number of reference country residents visiting other countries. However, in the case of expenditure, total expenditure relating to all destinations should be collected, to ensure compatibility with BoP requirements.

09:00-11:00 Session 3: Outbound Tourism Statistics

• 09:00-11:00 Session 3: Outbound Tourism Statistics

• ► Outbound Tourism Statistics Presenter: UNWTO

• 3.150. The points made about the table of results for domestic tourism (see Section D.3) apply as well in the case of outbound tourism.

09:00-11:00 Session 3: Outbound Tourism Statistics

• 09:00-11:00 Session 3: Outbound Tourism Statistics

• ► Outbound Tourism Statistics Presenter: UNWTO

09:00-11:00 Session 3: Outbound Tourism Statistics

• 09:00-11:00 Session 3: Outbound Tourism Statistics

• ► Measuring Outbound Tourism Statistics – Type of Tools and Procedures Applied

• Egypt:

• Measuring Inbound Tourism Statistics: Type of Tools & Procedures Applied

• Malaysia:

• Departure Visitors Survey in Malaysia

• Turkey:

• Outbound Tourism Statistics in Turkey

11:15-13:00 Session 4: Tourism Expenditure Statistics

• 11:15-13:00 Session 4: Tourism Expenditure Statistics

• ► Inbound and Outbound Tourism Expenditure Statistics

• Presenter: UNWTO

• ► Experiences on Application of Inbound and Outbound Tourism Expenditure Surveys

• Country presentations

• ► Q&A Session

11:15-13:00 Session 4: Tourism Expenditure Statistics

• 11:15-13:00 Session 4: Tourism Expenditure Statistics

• ► Inbound and Outbound Tourism Expenditure Statistics

• Presenter: UNWTO

• Beyond measuring the physical flows of visitors and their characteristics, tourism statistics are especially useful for understanding the economic implications of visitors’ activities. Such measurements allow tourism analysis to be linked with other economic analysis, permitting the integration of tourism policy within a country’s general macroeconomic policy framework. (IRTS 4.1)

• Difference between Tourism Expenditure and Tourism Consumption

• Tourism expenditure is the amount paid by visitors for the acquisition of consumption goods and services, as well as valuables, for own use or to give away, for and during tourism trips (IRTS 2008, 4.2.).
• Tourism consumption comprises tourism expenditure as well as a number of other non-expenditure consumption items which need to be imputed. The main ones are an imputed value of the use of second (holiday) homes and an imputed value of government subsidies to facilities used by visitors (e.g. museums, exhibitions, etc.).
• Tourism consumption is usually only required for purposes of constructing a TSA. However, tourism expenditure, collected by way of visitor surveys, is an important basic piece of visitor information which is useful for a variety of purposes, such as marketing and policy development. (4.3)
• It is also worth noting that data on tourism expenditure (and ultimately consumption) is particularly important as it is the means by which tourism demand and tourism supply are matched. This match, by way of a TSA, enables measurement of tourism’s contribution to an economy. (4.4)

11:15-13:00 Session 4: Tourism Expenditure Statistics

• 11:15-13:00 Session 4: Tourism Expenditure Statistics

• ► Inbound and Outbound Tourism Expenditure Statistics

• Presenter: UNWTO

• A growing number of countries have developed surveys to measure inbound tourism expenditure. The use of such instruments to also measure the “travel” item in the Balance of Payments has created increasing pressures for the alignment of tourism statistics with the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual, Sixth Edition (BPM6) and the Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services (MSITS 2010). It has also fostered improvements in the international comparability of Balance of Payments measures of the expenditures by travellers outside their country of residence. (4.5)

• In National Accounts, transactions of goods or services are to be recorded upon the transfer of ownership from seller to buyer in the case of goods, or upon service delivery by seller to buyer in the case of services – and not necessarily at the time of payment, which can occur beforehand (for instance, when a travel ticket is purchased in advance) or afterwards (when paying by credit card). For this reason, the terms “acquisition” and “payment” should not be used interchangeably: they occur at different points in time (IRTS 2008, 4.8. – 4.11.). This difference has to be thoroughly understood when making measurements and developing questionnaires.(4.10)