UN Tourism Committee on Statistics
The Committee is a subsidiary advisory body of the UN Tourism Executive Council. It acts in matters such as:
- proposing initiatives related to the design and implementation of international tourism statistics recommendations;
- promoting international comparability of tourism statistics by proposing initiatives relative to the collection, homogeneity, processing and dissemination of data;
- supporting efforts to integrate such data into the frameworks of the system of national tourism statistics and the Tourism Satellite Account (TSA);
- helping member countries in their initiatives to improve their respective national systems of tourism statistics (STS) and in the development of the TSA;
- liaising with other international bodies with delegated responsibilities for leadership and coordination of related international statistics and their standards within sphere of the UN system.