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.

These papers are part of the series that has been designed to serve as a platform for familiarizing statisticians and economic analysts interested in tourism with UNWTO's Tourism Satellite Account Project. In more than 300 pages UNWTO provides on an annual basis useful and actual information. In particular guidelines drawn up by the World Tourism Organization for the development of national Systems of Tourism Statistics (STSs) and of the Tourism satellite Account (TSA); activities carried out by the various Working Groups of UNWTO?s Committee on Statistics during the year. It includes, in addition, some especially noteworthy articles published mostly outside mainstream journals.

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.

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.

The purpose of this book is to provide a framework for understanding the complex and multifaceted nature of the factors that affect destination competitiveness. It provides guidance on how to create successful destinations by developing and presenting a conceptual model of destination competitiveness that recognizes the importance of sustainability for long-term success. The book is both theoretically sound and managerially useful. It is intended to appeal to both academic researchers and industry professionals and practitioners. Anyone with an interest in the enhancement of a destination's competitiveness from nations to small towns or regions will find this book invaluable.

The measurement of tourism is not an easy task. In the last decade there has been a growing interest in the tourism world in new methods to measure demand and supply of tourism. Fully revised and updated, the second edition of The Economics of Tourism Destinations provides a succinct guide to the economic aspects of tourism for students and practitioners alike to decipher the methods of measurement of supply, demand, trends and impacts. This book emphasizes new aspects such as measurement of tourism (e.g. Tourism Satellite Account), supply trends, competition models, macro evaluation of tourism projects and events and the role of tourism in a development strategy. Each chapter combines theory and practice and international case studies are provided.

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"A decade after the first edition of this book established itself as one of the major books that covered the nature of the demand for tourism, and the implications of that demand, this second edition represents a significant updating of material that reflects contemporary thinking."