Tourism measurement - Economical measurements

by Deenadhayalan & Gowthaman

tourism measurement economical measurements

tourism measurement ?Tourism generates directly and indirectly an increase in economic activity in the places visited (and beyond), mainly due to demand for goods and services that need to be produced and provided. There is a considerable interest in measuring the impacts of such increased economic activity either on a country as a whole or on a region or even a local destinations

WHY TOURISM MATTERS

tourism satellite account

TSA enables the generation of tourism economic data (such as Tourism Direct GDP) that is comparable with other economic statistics. Exactly how the TSA does this relates to the SNA logic of contrasting data from the demand-side (the acquisition of goods and services by visitors while on a tourism trip) with data from the supply-side of the economy (the value of goods and services produced by industries in response to visitor expenditure

tourism satellite account

♦ Internal tourism expenditure,

♦ Production accounts of tourism industries,

♦ The Gross Value Added (GVA) and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) attributable to tourism,

♦ Employment,

♦ Investment,

♦ Government consumption, and

♦ Non-monetary indicators

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