Seventeenth meeting - Committee on Statistics and the Tourism Satellite Account

The Seventeenth meeting of the Committee on Statistics and the Tourism Satellite Account was held, on 24-25 January 2017, in UNWTO Headquarters.

• Information note
• Final list of participants
• Final agenda
• Outcomes:
  • Response from the Committee to the IAEG on SDG indicators

• Towards a Statistical Framework for Measuring Sustainable Tourism (MST) (item for discussion):
  • Proceedings of the Meeting of the Working Group of Experts on Measuring Sustainable Tourism (doc) (ppt) (agenda item 3.1)
  • Statistical framework for measuring sustainable tourism – Draft outline (doc) (ppt) (agenda item 3.2)
  • Linking the accounting frameworks of the SEEA and the TSA – Draft outline for a Technical Note (doc) (ppt) (agenda item 3.3)
  • Options for allocating environmental flows to tourism through integration of data from tourism and environmental-economic accounts (doc) (ppt) (agenda item 3.4) 
  • Pilot studies' progress (agenda item 3.5):
    • Canada (ppt)
    • Italy (ppt)
    • Netherlands (ppt)
  • Global Implementation of the SEEA (ppt) (agenda item 3.6)
  • Global Assessment on Status of Tourism Statistics in countries (ppt) (agenda item 3.6)
     
• Measuring tourism at subnational levels (item for disucssion):
  • Tourism, territory and sustainability: a statistical insight at subnational levels (doc) (ppt) (agenda item 5.1)
  • Note by the Chair of the Committee (doc) (agenda item 5.2)
  • European Regions measuring sustainable tourism for effective policy making (NECSTouR) (ppt) (agenda item 5.3)
  • Operational framework for measuring sustainable tourism in destinations: the case of Santorini (ppt) (agenda item 5.4)
  • A we-based regional tourism satellite account information system - the case of Guangdong, China (ppt) (agenda item 5.5)
     
• ​SDGs indicators
  • Draft response from the Committee to the IAEG on SDG indicators (doc) (agenda item 6)
     
• Programme of Work (item for discussion):
  • Report of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) on tourism statistics to UN Statistical Commission (doc) (agenda item 7.1)
  • Possible way forward and priorities (agenda item 7.2):
    • Draft outline TSA Compilation Guide (doc) (ppt)
    • Proposed MST research program (doc) (ppt) 
       
• Big Data: opportunities and challenges (item for information)
  • Lessons drwan by the Task Force Big Data (ppt) (agenda item 8.1)
  • Possible uses of Big Data in the compilation of National Accounts: The case of the Tourism Satellite Account of Mexico (ppt) (agenda item 8.2) 
     
• ​Round table discussion on New Phenomena: "sharing economy" (item for information)
  • Private tourism services through digital platforms (doc) (ppt) (questionnaire: English, French and Spanish) (agenda item 9.1)
  • ​Challenges for the accommodation statistics due to newly emerging booking platforms – the Vienna example (ppt) (agenda item 9.2)
     
• Presentations
  • Information tools for decision-making in Tourism for Peru (ppt) (agenda item 10.1)

Photos of the seventeenth meeting (click on the image to expand)