[Day 1: Tuesday, 02 December, 2014]

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

► Inbound and Outbound Tourism Expenditure Statistics

[Advanced Topic]

Tourism expenditure classified in the National Accounts as intermediate consumption

• SNA2008 all purchases of goods and services by employees on business trips = should be classified as intermediate consumption
• IRTS2008making no distinction between the macroeconomic concepts of “intermediate consumption” and “final consumption”, as long as the direct beneficiary of the expenditure is the visitor (IRTS 2008, 4.5.)
• Regarding inbound and outbound tourism expenditure, and because some countries still do not compile tourism data, UNWTO uses data from the Balance of Payments rather than tourism data to support as much as possible international comparisons. However useful in this sense, Balance of Payments data should not be used in the overall tabulation of tourism statistics and should never be considered a substitute for tourism statistics. It is expected that, in time and as countries develop their Systems of Tourism Statistics, it will become possible to collect the countries’ actual inbound and outbound tourism expenditure data.

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

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

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

• Suriname: (3 presentations)

• Estimating Travel Account in the BOP of Suriname
• Process of Data Collection in Suriname
• Tourism Data Suriname

• Turkey:

• Tourism Income and Expense in Turkey

14:30-16:00 Session 5: Domestic Tourism Statistics

• 14:30-16:00 Session 5: Domestic Tourism Statistics

• ► Domestic Tourism Statistics

• Presenter: UNWTO

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

• Country presentations

• ► Q&A Session

14:30-16:00 Session 5: Domestic Tourism Statistics

• 14:30-16:00 Session 5: Domestic Tourism Statistics

• ► Domestic Tourism Statistics Presenter: UNWTO

• Domestic tourism differs from inbound tourism in ways that affect the procedures followed in observing them and the type of results obtained at national level: (3.103)

• No specific geographical border is crossed, so no counts or equivalent measurement procedures are usually conducted. In specific cases, some countries have developed methods for counting vehicle flows (translated into flows of persons) entering or leaving a closed (or nearly closed) area (a place, usually a city), to simulate a border. Such procedures can measure visits to specific places (destination analysis), but not all domestic tourism trips.
• Data on domestic same-day visits may pose a particular challenge, reflecting recall problems (when the data is collected by the recommended methodology, i.e. by way of household surveys) and the difficulty of providing in summary terms the precise criteria for the trips to be included.
• It should also be possible for countries to approach residents to generate statistics on their tourism behaviour during a past reference period. This is not easy in the case of non-residents taking trips in the country of reference, who cannot be approached for interviews after the trip is over. However, they can be given a questionnaire to complete after they return home or be approached in their country of origin if a contract address is available

14:30-16:00 Session 5: Domestic Tourism Statistics

• 14:30-16:00 Session 5: Domestic Tourism Statistics

• ► Domestic Tourism Statistics Presenter: UNWTO

14:30-16:00 Session 5: Domestic Tourism Statistics

• 14:30-16:00 Session 5: Domestic Tourism Statistics

• ► Domestic Tourism Statistics Presenter: UNWTO

14:30-16:00 Session 5: Domestic Tourism Statistics

• 14:30-16:00 Session 5: Domestic Tourism Statistics

• ► Domestic Tourism Statistics Presenter: UNWTO

14:30-16:00 Session 5: Domestic Tourism Statistics

• 14:30-16:00 Session 5: Domestic Tourism Statistics

• ► Domestic Tourism Statistics Presenter: UNWTO

• Since the aim of this Compilation Guide is to help countries implement IRTS 2008 and develop a national STS, the data to be obtained should be classified with reference to the standard frameworks described in chapter 5, to serve national purposes but also ensure international comparability. The data for national purposes will be much more detailed.

• For the purposes of international comparability, UNWTO annually requests from member and non-member countries, and then disseminates in the Compendium of Tourism Statistics, the data set and indicators for domestic tourism.

14:30-16:00 Session 5: Domestic Tourism Statistics

• 14:30-16:00 Session 5: Domestic Tourism Statistics

• ► Domestic Tourism Statistics Presenter: UNWTO

• Example of Table of Results