JOINT UNSD/ UNWTO
WORKSHOP ON TOURISM STATISTIC
FOR SOUTH-EAST ASIAN (SEA) COUNTRIES
16 -19 June 2009,
Vientiane, Lao PDRBackground documents
DOCUMENTS FILEReport of the workshop Agenda Questionnaire to SEA countries List of participants PRESENTATIONS Opening statement (UNSD) Revision on manuals on tourism statistics (UNSD) An overview of the status of tourism statistics in the SEA countries (UNESCAP) Basic concepts and definitions: travel and tourism (UNWTO) Tourism in the macroeconomic frameworks: use tourism aggregates in the System of National Accounts and in the Statistics of International Trade in Services (UNSD) Demand perspective: measuring flows of visitors / trips and their characterization in each form of tourism (UNWTO) Demand perspective: measuring tourism consumption (UNESCAP/UNSD) Classification of products and productive activities for tourism (UNSD) Classification of products (UNWTO) The supply perspective: conditions to provide goods and services to visitors (UNWTO) The supply perspective: measuring the tourist industry (UNESCAP/UNSD) Employment in the tourism industries (UNWTO) Data sources: administrative data sources, surveys (UNSD) Tourism data quality, metadata, dissemination, cooperation between different agencies (UNSD) Tourism statistics as a case study of integrated economic statistics: from basic statistics to the Tourism Satellite Account. Linking the IRTS 2008 and the TSA:RMF 2008. (UNWTO) The way ahead for SEA countries (UNWTO)