International Conferences on Tourism Statistics & Other Events
International Conferences
Over the years, UNWTO’s Statistics Department has coordinated important developments relating to the conceptualization of tourism and its measurement, progressively building consensus amongst the international statistical community. Some milestone scenarios in the historical developments have been the following international conferences:
- 6th International Conference on Tourism Statistics: Measuring Sustainable Tourism
Manila, Philippines, 21 - 24 June 2017 - 5th UNWTO International Conference on Tourism Statistics - Tourism: An Engine for Employment Creation
Bali, Indonesia, 30 March - 2 April 2009 - International Conference on Measuring Tourism Economic Contribution at Sub-National Levels
Málaga, Spain, 29 - 31 October 2008 - The Tourism Satellite Account (TSA): Understanding Tourism and Designing Strategies
Iguazu, Argentina/Brazil/Paraguay, 3-6 October 2005 - Tourism Satellite Accounts: Credible Number for Good Business Decisions Conference
Vancouver, Canada, 8-10 May 2001 - Enzo Paci World Conference on the Measurement of the Economic Impact of tourism
Nice, France, 15-18 June 1999
International Events
Introductory workshop on Tourism Employment Data Disaggregated by Sex The goal of this workshop is to become familiar with how tourism employment is measured, its complexity, and how sex – disaggregated data for tourism employment can be obtained. The participants will also had the opportunity to learn from countries that have been able to overcome barriers to achieve it.
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Workshop on Tourism Statistics, Online
This workshop is part of the support offered by UNWTO offered to countries during the COVID-19 pandemic to mitigate its effects on the sector. The topics addressed during the workshop included 'Measurement of Tourism for Better Policy' on day 1 and 'How to better measure Tourism' on Day 2.
Workshop on Tourism Statistics with a focus on the Caribbean, online, 16 - 17 February 2021, jointly organized by UNWTO and CTO' This workshop counted with the participation of different countries such as The Bahamas, Jamaica, Grenada or Aruba among other Caribbean countries in Session 2, while Session 1 provided an overview about the utility of Statistics for better policies.
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UNWTO workshop on Tourism Statistics for Asia and the Pacific members in Nepal This three day workshop focused on helping Member States from across Assia and the Pacific to better measure and manage their tourism sectors.
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Seminar on employment in tourism - Realizing its full potential This seminar counted with different key experts in the field of tourism and statistics and addressed various key topics such as 'Measuring Employment in the Tourism Industries', 'What can tourism data tell us about tourism businesses and those employed in them' or 'Alternative methods to evaluate formal and informal employment.
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Workshop on Measuring the economic impact of tourism in Europe: the Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) Jointly organized by UNWTO and the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) and in collaboration with Eurostat, this workshop aimed to bring policy makers (data users) and tourism statisticians and TSA compilers (data producers) to uncover the main elements for successful TSA implementation.
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The Regional Workshop on Tourism Statistics and Tourism Satellite Accounts he Statistical Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries (SESRIC) organized, in collaboration with the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), the Regional Workshop on Tourism Statistics and Tourism Satellite Accounts at SESRIC Headquarters in Ankara, Republic of Turkey on 2-4 December 2014.
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UNWTO Special Workshop on Tourism Statistics
This workshop provided an intensive and practical experience on a number of selected and highly relevant issues in applied tourism statistics: Measurement of tourism for policy purposes; Towards a Framework for Measuring the Sustainable Development of Tourism; and Institutional and technical requirements for successful TSA implementation.
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The Statistics Capacity Building Programme (SCBP) is a key element of UNWTO’s programme for the implementation of the UN ratified International Recommendations on Tourism Statistics 2008 (IRTS 2008) and Tourism Satellite Account: Recommended Methodological Framework 2008 (TSA:RMF 2008).