Wto Tourism

WORLD TOURISM ORGANIZATION
ORGANIZACIÓN MUNDIAL DEL TURISMO
ORGANISATION MONDIALE DU TOURISME

PART I

DESIGNING THE
TOURISM SATELLITE ACCOUNT (TSA)
METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK 1

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Marion Libreros, consultant of WTO, who was the material author of the 8 successive drafts of the TSA for
WTO, is the author of this paper. On behalf of her special role in the process, she was a particular observer and
participant of the process of elaboration of the framework.

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Pages
I.

Introduction ....................................................................................................... 1

II.

Brief historical review of the process of adoption of the Tourism
Satellite Account (TSA) in the World Tourism Organization (WTO)................ 2-6

III. Tourism consumption...................................................................................... 6-7
III.1. Definition........................................................................................... 6
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III.2. Scope of tourism consumption ......................................................... 7
IV. Tourism consumption encompasses more than visitor final
consumption expenditure in cash ................................................................. 7-15
IV.1. Issue regarding international tourism: venue of
consumption and destination of a trip........................................ 10-15
V.

Measuring the size of tourism: Tourism Value added and Tourism
GDP ............................................................................................................ 15-23
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V.1. A progressive understanding...................................................... 16-19
V.2. The case of goods for the compilation of Tourism Value
Added ......................................................................................... 19-20
V.3. An impossible consensus........................................................... 20-21
V.4. Measurement and...