The training course will introduce the theoretical and practical know-how of Tourism Satellite Accounts (TSA) compilation and will position TSA vis-à-vis primary tourism statistics. The main compilation challenges for each TSA table will be discussed, with the aim of improving the international comparability through maximising the use of existing harmonised European statistics. The final goal of the course is to prepare participants to embark on the production of TSA at national level or to improve the existing TSA and to better align national TSA to the international recommendations.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• Brief introduction to TSA: history, user relevance, relation to primary tourism statistics, relation to other macro-economic measurement (national accounts, BOP travel item, tourism trade in value added), governance and institutional set-up.
• Basic concepts of National Accounts for TSA compilers.
• Essential and other conditions/sources for TSA compilation (I/O tables, SUT, tourism statistics, business statistics, etc.).
• How to compile data on internal tourism consumption.
• How to compile a production account.
• How to measure tourism employment.
• Introduction to tourism gross fixed capital formation, tourism collective consumption and non-monetary indicators.
• Selected measurement and compilation issues/challenges (topics selected jointly with the participants).
• Communicating and disseminating TSA results to expert and non-expert audiences.
• Introduction to TSA at subnational level (incl. best practices).
• Introduction to linking TSA and SEEA (environmental accounts) in the context of measuring sustainable tourism (MST).