Workshop on Tourism Statistics

• Programme
• List of participants
• Speakers profiles

Session 1: The Measurement of Tourism for Better Policy

• Opening remarks
   - Ms. Elcia Grandcourt (UN Tourism)
   
• Tourism Statistics and Tourism Satellite Account: key ingredients for designing and monitoring tourism policies
   - Ms. Clara van der Pol, (UN Tourism): Statistics for tourism - Empowering the sector to better serve people, planet and prosperity
   - Ms. Lerato Makana (Lesotho): How to make the best use of tourism statistics and TSA data for tourism policies
   - Ms. Nkechi C. Ige (Nigeria): Institutional cooperation for the measurement of tourism in Nigeria
   
• Building back better after COVID-19 
   - Ms. Leandry Moreno (UN Tourism): Covid-19 impact: global and regional state-of-affair 
   - Ms. Tokelo Letsie (Lesotho): Measuring domestic tourism to drive recovery
   
• Big data: a complementary source for tourism statistics
   - Mr. Karoly Kovacs (UNSD): Introduction to the different features of big data: sources with potential for measuring tourism
   - Ms. Titi Kanti Letari (Indonesia): Indonesia’s Experience of using Signaling Mobile Positioning Data for Official Tourism Statistics 

Session 2: How to Better Measure Tourism? 

• Measuring international tourism
   - Ms. Leandry Moreno (UN Tourism): Main concepts, definitions, classifications, data sources and variables
   - Mr. Kevin Millington (UN Tourism Expert): Cruise tourism: measuring visitors and their impacts
   - Mr. Alan Renaud (Seychelles): The new Visitor Management Platform
   
• Measuring domestic tourism
   - Ms. Leandry Moreno (UN Tourism): Main concepts, definitions, classifications, data sources and variables
   - Mr. Kevin Millington (UN Tourism Expert): Domestic tourism: tips on how best measure it 
   
• Estimating tourism expenditure
   - Mr. Kepa Aranburu (UN Tourism Expert): Main concepts, definitions, classifications, data sources and variables
   - Mr. Kafula William Longa (Zambia): Country presentation
   
• Measuring tourism industries and employment
   - Ms. Leandry Moreno (UN Tourism): Main concepts, definitions, data sources and variables
   - Ms. Taslimah Joomun, (Mauritius): Country presentation