Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

The UN Tourism Department of Statistics, Standards and Data is UN custodian of the three official tourism indicators in the UN global SDG indicators framework.

Implementation of Standard Tools to Monitor Tourism Sustainability 

Indicator 12.b.1 shows the preparedness of countries to “develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts for sustainable tourism” called for in target 12.b. More specifically, it tracks the implementation of the most relevant Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) and System of Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA) tables.

* Source: Data compiled from countries by UN Tourism through annual statistical questionnaires. 
** The boundaries and names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the UN Tourism.

Other Tourism-Related SDG Indicators

Tourism GDP
Tourism GDP – SDG Indicator 8.9.1

Tourism Direct GDP refers to the economic contribution of tourism.

Macroeconomic Indicators
Employed persons
Employed Persons – SDG Indicator 8.9.2

In the tourism industries

Employment

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UN Standards for Measuring Tourism

System of Tourism Statistics is embedded in the National Statistical System, providing of reliable, consistent and appropriate statistical information on the socio-economic aspects related to tourism, integrated within the economic and social statistics related to other fields

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Capacity Building & Events

UN Tourism’s Statistics, Standards and Data Department has coordinated important developments relating to the conceptualization of tourism and its measurement, progressively building consensus amongst the international statistical community

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UN Tourism Committee on Statistics

The United Nations recognizes UN Tourism as the appropriate organization to collect, to analyze, to publish, to standardize and to improve the statistics of tourism, and to promote the integration of these statistics within the sphere of the United Nations system

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