Workshop on Tourism Statistics
Session 1: The Measurement of Tourism for Better Policy
- Opening remarks
- Ms. Elcia Grandcourt (UN Tourism)
- Tourism Statistics and Tourism Satellite Account: key ingredients for designing and monitoring tourism policies
- Ms. Clara van der Pol, (UN Tourism): Statistics for tourism - Empowering the sector to better serve people, planet and prosperity
- Ms. Lerato Makana (Lesotho): How to make the best use of tourism statistics and TSA data for tourism policies
- Ms. Nkechi C. Ige (Nigeria): Institutional cooperation for the measurement of tourism in Nigeria
- Building back better after COVID-19
- Ms. Leandry Moreno (UN Tourism): Covid-19 impact: global and regional state-of-affair
- Ms. Tokelo Letsie (Lesotho): Measuring domestic tourism to drive recovery
- Big data: a complementary source for tourism statistics
- Mr. Karoly Kovacs (UNSD): Introduction to the different features of big data: sources with potential for measuring tourism
- Ms. Titi Kanti Letari (Indonesia): Indonesia’s Experience of using Signaling Mobile Positioning Data for Official Tourism Statistics
Session 2: How to Better Measure Tourism?
- Measuring international tourism
- Ms. Leandry Moreno (UN Tourism): Main concepts, definitions, classifications, data sources and variables
- Mr. Kevin Millington (UN Tourism Expert): Cruise tourism: measuring visitors and their impacts
- Mr. Alan Renaud (Seychelles): The new Visitor Management Platform
- Measuring domestic tourism
- Ms. Leandry Moreno (UN Tourism): Main concepts, definitions, classifications, data sources and variables
- Mr. Kevin Millington (UN Tourism Expert): Domestic tourism: tips on how best measure it
- Estimating tourism expenditure
- Mr. Kepa Aranburu (UN Tourism Expert): Main concepts, definitions, classifications, data sources and variables
- Mr. Kafula William Longa (Zambia): Country presentation
- Measuring tourism industries and employment
- Ms. Leandry Moreno (UN Tourism): Main concepts, definitions, data sources and variables
- Ms. Taslimah Joomun, (Mauritius): Country presentation
Reference documents
- International Recommendations for Tourism Statistics 2008 (IRTS 2008)
- International Recommendations for Tourism Statistics 2008 Compilation Guide
- Tourism Satellite Account: Recommended Methodological Framework 2008 (TSA: RMF 2008)
- Conceptual Guidance on Tourism Statistics in the COVID-19 Context
- Tourism statistics: earlier adopter of big data
- Handbook on the Use of Mobile Phone Data for Official Statistics
