Classification Detail
List of categories of tourism characteristic activities (tourism industries)
Basic Bibliographic Information
Status:
Operational
Type:
To Be Determined
Citation:
International Recommendations for Tourism Statistics 2008 (IRTS 2008), United Nations: New York 2010, Chapter 5 (p. 39-47) and Annex 3.
ST/ESA/STAT/SER.M/83/Rev.1
Sales No. E.08.XVII.28
ISBN:
978-92-1-161521-0
Website:
Custodian:
World Tourism Organization
Available Formats:
PDF, Print
Year Adopted:
2008
Year Published:
2010
Available Languages (besides English):
Français, Español, العربية, Pусский, 中文 Details...
Français
Liste des catégories d’activités caractéristiques du tourisme (industries touristiques)
Citation:
Recommandations internationales sur les statistiques du tourisme 2008 (IRTS 2008), Nations Unies: Madrid/New York 2011, Chapitre 5 (p. 45-54) et Annexe 3.
ST/ESA/STAT/SER.M/83/Rev.1
ISBN:
978-92-1-261218-8
Español
Lista de categorías de actividades características del turismo (industrias turísticas)
Citation:
Recomendaciones internacionales para estadísticas de turismo 2008 (IRTS 2008), Naciones Unidas: Madrid/Nueva York 2010, Capítulo 5 (p. 43-52) and Anexo 3.
ST/ESA/STAT/SER.M/83/Rev.1
ISBN:
978-92-1-361238-5
العربية
-
Citation:
التوصيات الدولية المتعلقة بإحصاءات السياحة 2008
ST/ESA/STAT/SER.M/83/Rev.1
ISBN:
978-92-1-661034-0
Pусский
Перечень категорий характерных для туризма потребительских продуктов и видов деятельности (отрасли туризма)
Citation:
Международные рекомендации по статистике туризма, 2008 год
ST/ESA/STAT/SER.M/83/Rev.1
ISBN:
978-92-1-461021-2
中文
旅游特色活动（旅游行业）的分类列表
Citation:
2008年国际旅游 统计建议
ST/ESA/STAT/SER.M/83/Rev.1
ISBN:
978-92-1-730230-5
Availability:
Fully available in all of the languages above
Purpose of the Classification
Statistical Domains:
2.4.5 Tourism
Purpose:
The purpose is to group as tourism activities, those activities from the spectrum of ISIC that typically produce the products purchased by visitors. This is fundamental for setting up a Tourism Satellite Account (TSA). Please refer to IRTS 2008, para. 5.11.
Main Applications:
Categorize the tourism characteristic activities (tourism industries) in a standard way that allows for international comparability. This is fundamental for drawing up a Tourism Satellite Account. Support policy, decision making and analysis.
Main Users:
Public sector (in particular National Statistical Office and National Tourism Administration), private sector and academia
Methodology
Scope:
Productive activities serving visitors.
Concept Being Classified:
economic activities, tourism, tourism industries
Statistical Units:
establishment
Main Principles:
Tourism characteristic activities are the activities that typically produce tourism characteristic products. As the industrial origin of a product (the ISIC industry that produces it) is not a criterion for the aggregation of products within a similar CPC category, there is no strict one-to-one relationship between products and the industries producing them as their principal outputs. Two products of similar characteristics but produced by two different ISIC industries would be classified in the same CPC category (see para. 5.11 IRTS 2008).
Relationships to Other International Classifications:
Related To:
Major Differences (Scope, Structure, and Concepts):
Classification Structure
Definition of Structure:
Level:
Level Name:
Code Format:
Number of Items:
Level 1
Category
1
12 items
Remarks:
Please refer to the International Recommendations for Tourism Statistics 2008 Annex 3.
Revision Information
Chronology of revisions/versions of the classification:
Year Adopted:
Title or Version Number:
Website:
1993
1993 RTS
2008
IRTS 2008
Official Adopting Entity:
UN Statistical Commission
Coordinating Entity:
World Tourism Organization
Reason for Latest Revision:
The 1993 RTS proposed the Standard International Classification of Tourism Activities (SICTA) which was approved as a provisional classification (IRTS 2008 para. 1.19)
Major Changes:
See IRTS 2008 Annex 1 - Main differences between the IRTS 2008 and the 1993 RTS.
1993 RTS: No product classification. SICTA for activities, defined from ISIC using a subclassification from the 4-digit ISIC, (Rev. 3). Loose relationship with the consumption by visitors.
IRTS 2008: Tourism characteristic and tourism connected products are defined in terms of the 5-digit CPC, (Vev. 2) category to which they belong; goods can be included; strict relationship with acquisition by visitors. Establishments whose principal output is tourism characteristic (tourism industries) are defined on the basis of the 4-digit ISIC (Rev. 4) category to which they belong; no production of goods is included, only their retail trade as tourism industries must directly serve visitors.
Supporting Documents
Coding Index Available:
No
Correspondence with Other Classifications:
Classification:
Correspondence Table:
Training Materials and Other Documents:
International Recommendations for Tourism Statistics 2008 Compilation Guide : http://unstats.un.org/unsd/statcom/doc14/BG-Tourism.pdf
Contact Information
Agency / Office:
World Tourism Organization
Unit:
Statistics and Tourism Satellite Account
Email:
Website:
Telephone:
+34 91 567 81 00
Fax:
+34 91 571 37 33
Address:
C/ Capitán Haya 42
28020 Madrid
Spain
Comments
Please refer to International Recommendations for Tourism Statistics 2008, Chapter 5 (figure 5.1) and Annex 3.