| Abstract: |
Regions and cities play a growing role in tourism development and policy
design. The economy-wide effects of tourism are significant and vary a lot
from one territory to another in terms of number of visitors, type of tourism,
seasonality patterns, revenues and added value per visitor or jobs generated.
This OECD review supports a better measurement of the various impacts of
tourism at sub-national level by the sharing of good and innovative country
statistical initiatives. The review will contribute to the development of
reliable data and analysis at regional and local levels for business and
policy decision making. The review presents statistical initiatives for
Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, New Zealand,
Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The initiatives focus on a wide
range of issues such as total economic impact of tourism; direct economic
impacts of tourism; tourism-related employment; enterprise demographics;
tourism spending/revenues and high yield visitors, data visualization;
regional competitiveness; and sustainability. |