[Day 1: Tuesday, 02 December, 2014]

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

• Categories of Tourism Expenditure (IRTS 2008, 4.15)

• Domestic tourism expenditure is the tourism expenditure of a resident visitor within the economy of reference;
• Inbound tourism expenditure is the tourism expenditure of a non-resident visitor within the economy of reference;
• Outbound tourism expenditure is the tourism expenditure of a resident visitor outside the economy of reference;

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

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

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

• ► Inbound and Outbound Tourism Expenditure Statistics

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

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

• ► Inbound and Outbound Tourism Expenditure Statistics

• In general, determining which part of an international visitor’s expenditure corresponds to inbound/outbound tourism expenditure, which part corresponds to domestic tourism expenditure, and which part should be excluded is not a very complex process: visitors themselves can often easily identify where their expenditures were made and the country of residence of the sellers or providers.(4.24.)

• For a few fields of expenditure, however, such determinations are less straightforward, and in particular for the following three

• Transportation between origin and destination (mainly air, but also rail and water),
• Package tours, and
• Reservation services, imbedded in the purchase of some services.

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

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

• ► Inbound and Outbound Tourism Expenditure Statistics

• Classification of tourism expenditure

• The IRTS 2008 thus recommends using a classification that allows visitors to group their expenditure according to purpose: the Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose (COICOP). This classification is commonly used for the description of personal consumption in general statistics and household surveys, and has the primary advantage that it can be linked to the CPC (which, in turn, enables links to supply-side classifications, see Chapter 5).
• The categories that are most commonly used and recommended in IRTS 2008 are: (4.49)
• i. Package travel, package holidays and package tours
• ii. Accommodation
• iii. Food and drink
• iv. Local transport
• v. International transport
• vi. Recreation, culture and sporting activities
• vii. Shopping
• viii. Others

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

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

• ► Inbound and Outbound Tourism Expenditure Statistics

• Measuring inbound tourism expenditure (4.53)

• The most common and rigorous method of observing expenditure by non-resident visitors is to survey them as they leave the country (see Chapter 3, Section C.2.2.1). The following methods are used to observe inbound tourism expenditure. It should be noted that the following discussions on border surveys, surveys at accommodation or tourism sites, or the use of electronic prints contain elements of relevance to also the measurement of domestic and outbound tourism expenditure.

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

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

• ► Inbound and Outbound Tourism Expenditure Statistics

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

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

• ► Inbound and Outbound Tourism Expenditure Statistics

• Measuring outbound tourism expenditure (4.72).

• As mentioned in connection with the measurement of visitor flows (Chapter 3), outbound tourism expenditure can be measured at or near the border as outbound visitors return from their trip or, as in the case of domestic tourism expenditure, through the use of household-type surveys.
• Under certain conditions, the measurements of a country’s outbound tourism expenditure obtained through a household-type survey can be used directly or as an input for the measurement of inbound tourism expenditure in the countries visited. This is often referred to as the use of mirror statistics (see Chapter 3, Section C.2.2.4).

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

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

• ► Inbound and Outbound Tourism Expenditure Statistics

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

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