The purpose of a Tourism Satellite Account is to analyse in detail all the aspects of demand for goods and services associated with the activity of visitors; to observe the operational interface with the supply of such goods and services within the economy; and to describe how this supply ...

The purpose of a Tourism Satellite Account is to analyse in detail all the aspects of demand for goods and services associated with the activity of visitors; to observe the operational interface with the supply of such goods and services within the economy; and to describe how this supply interacts with other economic activities. The present volume provides an updated framework for constructing a Tourism Satellite Account. It should permit greater internal consistency of tourism statistics with the rest of the statistical system of a country, as well as increased international comparability of these data.

CD-ROM: Includes cyberlabs using a virtual teaching assistant and key spreadsheets.

Presents a recommended methodological framework for a tourism satellite account for national accounts made by a working group having the participation of the Statistical Office of the European Communities, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and the World Tourism Organisation.

Tourism satellite accounts (TSA) is a framework for integrating all the statistical data used to quantify the economic impacts of tourism. This publication describes how its development.