Classification Detail
List of categories of tourism characteristic consumption products
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 4.
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 de produits de consommation caractéristiques du tourisme
Citation:
Recommandations internationales sur les statistiques du tourisme 2008 (IRTS 2008), Nations Unies: Madrid/New York 2011, Chapitre 5 (p. 45-54) et Annexe 4.
ST/ESA/STAT/SER.M/83/Rev.1
ISBN:
978-92-1-261218-8
Español
Lista de categorías de productos de consumo característicos del turismo
Citation:
Recomendaciones internacionales para estadísticas de turismo 2008 (IRTS 2008), Naciones Unidas: Madrid/Nueva York 2010, Capítulo 5 (p. 43-52) and Anexo 4.
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
Citation:
Международные рекомендации по статистике туризма, 2008 год
ST/ESA/STAT/SER.M/83/Rev.1
ISBN:
978-92-1-461021-2
中文
旅游特色消费产品的分类列表
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:
To identify the goods and services purchased by visitors. This is fundamental for setting up a Tourism Satellite Account (TSA). See IRTS 2008 para. 5.7 and 5.8.
Main Applications:
Categorize the tourism characteristic consumption products in a standard way that allows for international comparability. The classification is fundamental for drawing up a TSA. The classification satisfies two different types of needs: those related to the measurement of tourism consumption and those related to the measurement of the broader concept of tourism demand.
Main Users:
Public sector (in particular National Statistical Offices, National Tourism Administration), private sector and academia.
Methodology
Scope:
The main focus of the classification is on those goods and services directly acquired by visitors that are part of individual consumption expenditure incurred by households (the scope of the COICOP classification) and main productive activities serving visitors and in direct contact with them (see para. 6.2) but it will also consider valuables that might be acquired by visitors (see para. 4.4). It therefore excludes goods that belong to tourism investment or services provided as support services to producers or strongly related to tourism but not acquired directly by visitors, such as promotion and administrative services and consulting services for tourism development.
Concept Being Classified:
goods, services, tourism
Statistical Units:
transaction
Main Principles:
Each of the groupings contains both goods and services. The classification in a grouping is based on the purpose of the expenditure irrespective of its physical nature or mode of production. See IRTS 2008 para. 5.7-5.13.
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, para. 5.18 (Figure 5.1) and Annex 4.
Criteria for Definition of Levels:
Products are grouped into main categories and detailed classes of CPC Ver. 2.
Revision Information
Chronology of revisions/versions of the classification:
Year Adopted:
Title or Version Number:
Website:
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) but this had a relationship with the consumption of visitors.
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 2.