Description: Travelling can be a major challenge for the 16% of the world´s population who experience significant disability. Around 1.3 billion people face major physical, sensory, cognitive and cultural barriers on a daily basis. Accessibility is a human right, but also a business opportunity for the tourism destinations and the entire business ecosystem of the travel value chain. Travellers with specific access requirements and seniors struggle to find clear, accurate and trustworthy information on the accessibility of the tourism facilities, services and experiences, offered by destinations and service providers. Accessible tourism enables destinations and companies to tap into this expanding market, engage with diverse customer groups and host communities. Destinations can adopt methodologies to size up the market, introduce monitoring and evaluation indicators and encourage feedback systems meant to improve the overall service quality. The ISO Standard 21902:2021, the San Marino Action Agenda for the Future of Accessible Tourism 2030 and the recently adopted MST, serve as catalysts for the disability inclusion and tourism’s contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals. They encompass strategies to advance in training, undertake specific access improvements in different environments, develop measurement systems and increase awareness in the industry of the benefits of accessible tourism for all. Measuring and monitoring accessibility, at a global level, is gradually progressing. This is important as for decision- making on future developments and investments in the sphere of accessible tourism, specific qualitative and quantitative data is needed. Such will not only help to better understand the actual needs and behavioural patterns of the travellers with specific access requirements. This data will also make the business case of Tourism for All more evident for the private sector and public investments. Accessibility is one of the eleven key issue area that INSTO members are committed to monitor at the destination level. This INSTO webinar will discuss latest concepts and specific developments in the sphere of measuring accessibility. It will feature solutions and lessons learned by selected experts and Members of the UN Tourism International Network of Sustainable Tourism Observatories (INSTO) in the field of measuring and monitoring accessibility, at the destination level.
Description: The link between energy usage and tourism is significant, as the sector is dependent on both transport-related activities such as travel to, from and at the destination, and destination-related aspects such as accommodation, food services and tourist activities. Efforts to reduce its consumption can be beneficial for the sector through cost savings, and environmentally beneficial for the destination as a whole by reducing consumption of natural resources and lowering associated greenhouse gas emissions. However, measuring energy consumption in the tourism sector remains difficult and complex. This is partly because it is difficult to capture tourism´s indirect energy use through the construction of hotels, airports, cars and roads, as well as energy use in associated sectors, such as tour operators. Existing indicators focus on consumption, the use of alternative sources and the introduction of energy efficiency and saving programs. This fifth INSTO Insights webinar will discuss the experiences of selected experts and INSTO Members on measuring energy management at the destination level. Energy management is one of the 11 key issue areas INSTO Members have to monitor and manage. Experiences will be shared on used indicators and various methodologies in this regard. The implications of these monitoring efforts in terms of informing policies and strategies will also be discussed.
Description: Tourism is often a driver of development, triggering desired investments and employment opportunities in destinations. To contribute to the desired development objectives of destinations while fostering sustainability, it is important to regularly monitor and evaluate the economic benefits, among them the return on its investment, the direct and indirect employment effects, on taxes earned from tourism businesses, and any increase in asset value (land and infrastructure prices). In addition, tourism causes indirect economic benefits through the development of support services and increased opportunities in other industries ranging from food and agriculture to crafts and construction. Indicators of the economic effects of tourism activity in a destination range from measuring employment, business investments, tourism revenues, community expenditures to aspects of leakages. The measurement of many of these aspects is supported by the methodology of the Tourism Satellite Account, the statistical framework that is used as a standardised tool to measure the direct economic contributions of tourism consumption to a national economy.. This INSTO Insights webinar will discuss the experiences and insights of INSTO Members and experts on monitoring water management, which is one of the 11 mandatory key issue areas INSTO Members are committed to monitor. Experiences will be shared on used indicators and various methodologies in this regard. The implications of these monitoring efforts in terms of informing policies and strategies will also be discussed.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 10 Jan 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: This webinar will discuss the issues of data sources available in tourism statistics. We will present how to search for new data sources and how to analyse them. We will review and apply methods for merging and combining the web scraped data with other sources, using various programming environments. We will also look at different methods for removing any duplicates found in the merged dataset.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 19 May 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: Did you know that the ten top regions account for 25% of all nights spent in the EU? And did you know that every single minute, 100 bookings are made via online accommodation platforms? This webinar on European tourism data and policy introduces you to European tourism statistics, including the recent innovative project on data sharing with Airbnb, Booking, Expedia Group and Tripadvisor. It also showcases how statistical data interact with policymaking.
Description: Satisfaction of local residents is considered one of the key factors for sustainable tourism development. Many residents either work directly in the tourism value chain or benefit from it indirectly, while many others only passively experience the impacts of tourism, whether positive or negative. Therefore, monitoring local satisfaction is key to long-term sustainable development and helps tourism policy makers and planners to effectively use tourism resources and identify potential problems and conflicts in a timely manner. This INSTO Insights webinar will discuss the experiences and insights of INSTO members and experts on measuring the satisfaction level of local residents toward sustainable tourism development, especially from the residents´ perspective on socio-cultural, economic, and environmental developments. Experiences will be shared on various methodologies, such as the use of questionnaires and surveys, including the presentation of indicators such as the Tourism Intensity Index. The implications of these monitoring efforts in terms of informing policies and strategies will also be discussed in more details.
Description: Within the framework of its Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, SESRIC will organise a Training Course on 'SDG 8.9.1 Indicator' for the benefit of National Statistical Offices (NSOs) of OIC countries on 12-14 September 2022 through an online video conferencing platform. Mr. Rifa Rufaidi, Senior Statistician at the Directorate of Statistics of Finance, Information Technology, and Tourism, and Ms. Nur Indah Kritiani, Senior Statistician for National Accounts at the Directorate of Production Accounts of the BPS-Statistics Indonesia, will jointly conduct the course and cover the following topics: Demand Perspective Inbound Tourism Statistics Outbound Tourism Statistics Domestic Tourism Statistics Supply Perspective Maintain Frame in Statistical Business Registers Tourism Industry Survey Overview of Tourism Satellite Accounts Compilation of Tourism Supply and Tourism Demand The SESRIC StatCaB Programme was initiated in early 2007. It is the flagship capacity development programme of SESRIC. Within the framework of StatCaB Programme, the Centre collects information from the NSOs of OIC member countries through the biennial StatCaB Questionnaire, assesses their statistical training needs and capacities, matches these needs and capacities, and organizes statistical capacity development activities between the beneficiary and provider countries. For more information on SESRIC Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, please visit: http://www.oicstatcom.org/statcab.php
Description: UNWTO, the German Development Agency (GIZ) and UN Women are collaborating on an innovative project focused around the UNWTO Action Plan on Women in Tourism that arose from the findings of the Global Report on Women in Tourism, Second Edition. The Centre Stage project will see UNWTO foster commitment, provide support and monitor implementation of the Action Plan on Women in Tourism in four countries across the Middle East and the Americas. It aims to place women’s empowerment and gender-equality centre stage during tourism’s recovery from COVID-19 and increase the production and reporting of sex-disaggregated tourism data. As recent UNWTO publications on women in tourism have found, there is an acute lack of available, sex-disaggregated data on employment in the tourism sector and an urgent need to improve the collection of comparable tourism data and gender statistics across world regions. Sex-disaggregated data is particularly critical for developing evidence-based policies and programmes to strengthen the tourism sector’s contribution to the achievement of gender equality and women’s empowerment as the sector recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Target Audience: * National Tourism Administration representative(s); * National Statistics Authority representative(s); * National Employment Authority representative(s); * National Gender Mechanism representative(s).
Description: As part of the Centre Stage project, UNWTO is reinforcing its commitment to provide support to increase the production and reporting of sex-disaggregated tourism data in different regions. As recent UNWTO publications on women in tourism have found, there is an acute lack of available, sex-disaggregated data on employment in the tourism sector and an urgent need to improve the collection of comparable tourism data and gender statistics across world regions. Sex-disaggregated data is particularly critical for developing evidence-based policies and programmes to strengthen the tourism sector’s contribution to the achievement of gender equality and women’s empowerment as the sector recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic. Programme overview Understanding the inherent complexity of measuring tourism employment with rigor, finding out that is feasible; Learning how to address a far needed monitoring: sex-disaggregated tourism employment; Inspiration by countries explaining their own experience to be able to measure tourism employment and its disaggregation by sex. Workshop Learning Objectives 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 have the opportunity to learn from countries that have been able to overcome barriers to achieve it. By the end of this workshop, participants will: Understand the complexity and how to measure tourism employment; Understand different approaches to achieve sex-disaggregated data on tourism employment; Be able to structure their own country’s approach to start measuring sex-disaggregated data on tourism employment.
Target Audience: * National Tourism Administration representative(s), * National Statistics Authority representative(s), * National Employment Authority representative(s), * National Gender Mechanism representative(s).
Organizer(s): UNWTO Department of Tourism Philippines
Description: Measuring the sustainability of tourism (MST) aims to bring to all countries in the world a common framework to measure the impacts and dependencies of tourism on the economy, society and the environment. This is essential to better understand the role of tourism in sustainable development and to pragmatically monitor progress, especially in the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals. With new situations emerging from the unprecedented covid-19 pandemic, tourism restarts with sustainability as the new normal. Being able to properly measure the sustainability of the tourism sector for monitoring relevant policies has become crucial. In the meantime, the tourism industry have shown an increased commitment to implementing sustainability concepts and measures in recent years. These underline the need for the development of the MST. Therefore, UNWTO jointly organizes the UNWTO Asia-Pacific Workshop on Measuring the Sustainability of Tourism with the Department of Tourism of the Philippines. This event is sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Korea.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 May 2021 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The training course will introduce the theoretical and practical know-how of TSA compilation and will position TSA vis-à-vis primary tourism statistics. The main compilation challenges for each TSA table (with a focus on core tables 1 to 7) 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.
Target Audience: Staff of national statistical authorities involved in the production process of tourism statistics, national accounts or (tourism) satellite accounts, who want to acquire a good understanding of the macro-economic measurement of the tourism sector, in particular the tourism satellite accounting framework (TSA), with the objective to develop or improve TSA in their country. The training is targeted at experienced as well as novice or future TSA compilers with the aim of spreading/exchanging the know-how and best practices within and between the different levels of expertise. Please note: All ESTP Courses are exclusively available to staff members of a European Statistical System (ESS) institution.
Description: Within the framework of its Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, SESRIC will organise an Online Training Course on ‘SDG 8.9 (Sustainable Tourism) Indicators’ for the benefit of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) and other National Statistical Offices (NSOs) of Arabic speaking OIC Member Countries on 16-18 November 2021. Mr. Mohammad KHALAF, Head of Quality Management Division at the Department of Statistics of Jordan, will conduct the course and cover the following topics: Concept, the outputs of tourism and its relationship with other SDGs; Role of tourism in sustainable tourism; Introduction to sustainable tourism indicators; and The inputs of tourism statistics and outputs calculations. The course will be conducted through a video conferencing platform by following synchronous learning and instruction approaches designed in line with the virtual training solutions undertaken by SESRIC in order to better serve the Centre’s training activities and keep participants motivated and engaged during this time of global crisis due to COVID-19. For more information on SESRIC Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, please visit: http://www.oicstatcom.org/statcab.php
Description: Effective governance is a key condition for the sustainable development of tourism destinations. Its efficiency largely depends on inter-relationships between relevant actors in the sector, who through participatory processes are connected in the making of policies and decisions. For an evidence-based or evidence-informed decision-making process, the collection of data, deriving, inter alia, from sustainable tourism indicators, their transformation into subsequent information and knowledge, is crucial and shall help to improve tourism sustainability and competitiveness in a destination. However, the process of informing policy decisions is highly complex. It depends on various factors, ranging from the capacity to understand what the newly generated information means for the destination, to political, cultural, financial and other considerations that are influencing such. For the establishment of Observatories in general and for INSTO Observatories in particular, the participatory process is considered fundamental. The Rules for the Operation and Management of the UNWTO INSTO Observatories clearly outline the need to engage all relevant stakeholders through a participatory approach and involve them in the processes and decisions ensuring coherent action regarding, inter alia, the monitored issue areas as well as the selection of indicators and methodologies. However, there are multiple challenges and significant differences in this governance aspect. This year´s INSTO Meeting is focussed on the topic of governance and participatory approaches. Selected experts and INSTO Members will share their experiences, insights and methodologies in this context.
Organizer(s): OECD Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Republic Korea
Description: The OECD Global Forum on Tourism Statistics, Knowledge and Policies brings together high-level policy makers, statisticians, and leaders from the private sector and civil society to exchange ideas, views and experience on issues high on the global tourism policy agenda. The 2021 edition of the Global Forum is hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Korea, on the theme reshaping tourism for a more resilient and sustainable tomorrow. It will provide a unique platform to support tourism recovery and develop a common transformation agenda for the tourism economy, to move to stronger, more sustainable and inclusive models of tourism development in the future. This year’s Global Forum on Tourism will be a hybrid event, online and in-person in Seoul Korea.
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Description: Background Tourism and its supporting sectors are the most affected industry by the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide. The Stats Café discusses interim results of a study by ESCAP that investigates the use of alternative data sources for tourism statistics during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia, Thailand and the Maldives. The value of web scraping and geospatial data for producing tourism statistics is examined. , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events
Description: Most tourist destinations in the world are affected by the phenomenon of seasonality. Destinations with high fluctuations in seasonality often face various challenges, such as overcrowding, high prices, inadequate infrastructure in peak seasons, as well as a lack of services and job opportunities in shoulder and low seasons. Seasonality is a measurable feature with significant economic and social impacts. Understanding the main characteristics can help to modify its occurrence. Causes can be natural such as the seasons and related climate conditions, or institutional such as public and school holidays. Consequently, seasonality is regular and consistent and can be predictable and anticipated. This makes it more possible to mitigate. To measure the degree of seasonality, destinations can use specific indicators, ranging from tourist arrivals to occupancy rates. There are also indicators regarding initiatives to strengthen shoulder and low season periods, as well as measuring the level of effort designed to reduce seasonality. As seasonality is a factor in unemployment, seasonal employment and turnover of staff, indicators regarding the effects of seasonality on employment are important tools to monitor its social impact. This third technical webinar discussed experiences and lessons learned by some Members of the UNWTO International Network of Sustainable Tourism Observatories (INSTO) in the field of measuring and monitoring tourism seasonality. Tourism seasonality is one of the mandatory 11 key issue areas INSTO Members have to monitor and manage.
Description: Accelerating tourism recovery in Africa by providing national and local NTOs and other DMOs with digital skills and know-how in data, research and marketing
Description: The “High Level Discussion on Measuring the Sustainability of Tourism” took place Friday 12 March at 9 am, NY time, organized by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) in the framework of the United Nations Statistical Commission 52nd session. In this event, high level officials from National Statistical Offices in different countries will discuss the need for the measurement of the sustainability of tourism in all its dimensions—economic, social and environmental— and present their experiences in Measuring the Sustainability of Tourism. This event complements the background document on Measuring the Sustainability of Tourism that is presented to the current session of the United Nations Statistical Commission.
Description: Within its recently initiated Webinar Series on Statistical Experience Sharing, SESRIC will organise a webinar on “Tourism Statistics” on 24 February 2021 in collaboration with the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) with the participation of official statisticians working in National Statistical Offices of the OIC countries. This webinar will cover the following topics related to Tourism Statistics: Inbound Tourism Statistics Outbound Tourism Statistics Tourism Satellite Accounts Household Domestic Tourism The webinar will be conducted through a video conferencing platform by following synchronous learning and instruction approaches designed in line with the virtual training solutions undertaken by SESRIC in order to better serve the Centre’s training activities and keep participants motivated and engaged during this time of global crisis due to COVID-19. For more information on the SESRIC Statistical Experience Sharing Webinar Series, please visit: https://www.oicstatcom.org/webinar-series.php Documents: Concept Note (English)
Description: The Samoa Tourism Authority (STA) are in the process of finalizing their next Samoa Tourism Sector Plan for the period 2020/21-2024/25, providing a timely opportunity for UNESCAP to support the process with an application of the EPiC tool in order to review the current status of the document, to determine what recommendations the tool can provide in the areas of coverage and monitoring for consideration by the STA. As such STA, in collaboration with SBS and EPPD, have indicated a willingness to work with UNESCAP to implement the EPIC online App for this newly developed Samoa Tourism Sector Plan, 2020/21-2024/25. The focus of the workshop exercise was threefold; i) reviewing the coverage of “Issues for Action” presented in the document, ii) reviewing the final “Statistical Indicators” proposed for monitoring progress against these issues, and iii) reviewing the alignment of steps to achieve these results. Agenda Concept Note , EPiC tool: Overview Resources Workshops
Description: Being fundamentally reliant on the mobility of people, it is no surprise that tourism is one of the hardest hit sectors in the Covid-19 crisis. However, do we really know the effects that this situation is having on tourism in all its dimensions? Do we understand the effects that the reduction of tourism activity is having on economies, societies and the environment? Certainly there is data, data everywhere, but not all of it is equally well placed to answer these questions—especially not when we wish to benchmark or gain trust. Covid-19 has also shown just how important sustainability is. In a world where our economies, our societies, and our environment were more narrowly intertwined than ever, the spread and the effects of the virus rapidly became pervasive. Tourism is by definition embedded in our economies and in our societies, it relies on our environment which it can help protect or degrade. High level experts will discuss the impacts of the global pandemic not only on tourism activity per se, but also on the nature of the statistical activities that are necessary to properly measure the main aspects of tourism at the national and international levels, in the short, medium and long-term.
