B.1.1. Providers of market accommodation services classified under “Accommodation” (ISIC division 55)
6.27 As explained in Chapter V (see paras. 5.29-5.30), countries will need to establish a classification of accommodation providers compatible with their licensing systems (if they have them), and of other informal or occasional market service providers.
6.28. In the absence of an effective licensing or organizational scheme system, or in the case of operators functioning outside such schemes, identifying and measuring the supply of such operators, is highly challenging, except, possibly, when this is conducted through household surveys or population and housing censuses. Traditional housing censuses collect data in the field through a full enumeration conducted in a relatively short period of time. However, as housing censuses are cost and time‑intensive, many countries are moving away from the traditional forms and adopting an alternative methodology which combines data from registers with data from other sources.
Table VI.2
ISIC division 55: Accommodation
