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Current Global Initiatives to Address the
Sustainability Challenge in Tourism
Scoping a ‘Tourism and environment reporting mechanism – TOUERM’
7th July 2014
SDGs
10YFP
Accelerating the change towards sustainable consumption and production patterns
SIDS
3rd International Conference on Small Islands Developing States, Samoa, September 2014
WCDRRThird UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction
Sendai, March 2015
GOST
UNWTO Global Observatories on Sustainable Tourism
Nara Tourism Statistics WeekUNWTO Special Workshop on Tourism Statistics
Nara, Japan, November 2014
Report on the Economic Value of
Wildlife Watching Tourism
Committee on Tourism and Sustainability (CTS)
Composition
• Bahamas (Chair)• Bolivia • China • Iran, Islamic Republic of • Iraq• Israel (Vice-Chair)• Senegal• Serbia• Seychelles
• Flemish Community of Belgium, Representative of the Associate Members
• Instituto para la Calidad Turística Española (ICTE), Representative of the Affiliate Members
UNWTO’s statistical mandate
We are recognized as the appropriate organisation to collect, to analyze, to publish, to standardise and to improve the statistics of tourism.
1. Striving for international comparability, through development of standards
2. Securing international comparability through the implementation of standards,
compilation of international data and indicators,
3. Dissemination, encouraging analysis and use by tourism stakeholders
4. Direct support to countries : Capacity Building and technical assistance
Statistics is more than numbers:
it is a
PROCESS
You managed what you measure
If you can measure it, you can manage and improve it!
Measurement
Analysis
Policy/Strategy Formulation
Implementation and Monitoring
Evaluation
“Statistics permeate modern life. They are the basis for many governmental, business and community decisions”
Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary-General, on World Statistics Day (2010)
The 2008 international consensus
Tourism as an economic sector (i.e. GDP, etc.)
supported by all UN countries and ILO, IMF, World Bank, WTO, European Commission
IRTS 2008: concept
s, definitio
ns, classifications
for basic tourism statistic
s
TSA: RMF 2008:
framework for
the economi
c measurement of tourism consistent with SNA, BoP
System of
Tourism Statistics
Credible, comparable statistics
UNWTO develops guidelines to implement
UNWTO develops guidelines to implement these international standards
• Compilation guide on tourism statistics
• World-wide consultation
• Adopted by the UN Statistical Commission in 2014
Regarding Tourism Statistics (IRTS 2008)
• Insight of tourism’s multiple facets – 145 indicatorsInbound, outbound, domestic tourism, tourism industries and
employment; and macroeconomic indicators – 209 countries
• Enables analysis of: one country’s current situation; one country’s historical evolution since 1995; many countries at a point in time; many countries over time
• Useful tool and reference guide for Member States for advocacy, policy design, results-based management and strategy
• Published since 1975
In 2011, the content of the Compendium had been expanded with new indicators. For the 2014 edition, a great number of countries provided us with their figures: Tourism industries: 188 countries Employment: 87 countries Domestic tourism: 108 countries Macroeconomic indicators: 170 countries
You manage what you measure!
Compiled into the most comprehensive statistical tourism database:
Compendium of Tourism Statistics: some examples
You look up the Compendium if you want to know, e.g.
• The number of hotels in Cyprus?• The turn-over (in US$) of travel agencies in Spain?• The number of self-employed in tourism industries in
Canada?• The number of departures from Belgium
• with an overnight stay?• and how many returned on the same day?
• The number of arrivals by railway in Lithuania?• The expenditures (in US$) of business arrivals in
Uganda?• The tourism balance (in % of GDP) of Argentina?• ….
Thank you!
Dr. Dirk GlaesserDr. Oliver HerrmannWorld Tourism Organization…………………………………..
Tel: + 34 91 5678 100Fax: + 34 91 5713 733
www.unwto.org