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Manuals and guidelines
Methodological manual for tourism statistics Version 3.1
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Preface
The tourism sector accounts for a significant part of the economy in many European countries. Given the sector's potential in terms of growth and employment but also in terms of social and cultural integration, any appraisal of its competitiveness and position requires a good knowledge through official statistics of the volume of tourism, the characteristics of tourism trips, the profile of the tourist, the tourism expenditure and the benefits for the economies of the countries. The adoption by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union of Regulation 692/2011 concerning European statistics on tourism is a major step forward towards harmonised system of tourism statistics for the European countries.
An important element in achieving the objective of harmonised and comparable statistics, is this Methodological Manual for Tourism Statistics. The manual will be a tool for helping the national compilers of tourism statistics to translate the European requirements into the national data collection systems and to implement national surveys following a harmonised methodology. It should be a hands-on tool with recommended guidelines. Its main focus is on explanatory notes to the variables and breakdowns. It however also includes a set of recommendations to national statistical authorities to be taken into account when carrying out the surveys / data collections to assure the production of high quality and comparable results as foreseen in the regulatory framework. Annexes with – where applicable - model questionnaires, transmission formats and metadata and quality reporting templates as well as legal background documents are included in this manual.
The concept of this manual is to use it as a regularly updated 'rolling document'. Any proposal to improve or complete the manual is welcome, also from readers/users outside the European Statistical System.
This manual builds on existing methodological guidelines and integrates in particular elements from the following sources: Commission Decision of 9 December 1998 on the procedures for implementing Council Directive 95/57/EC 1;