Prethodno priopćenje
https://doi.org/10.20867/thm.4.2.3
A plaidoyer for the unique tourism accounts (dilemmas, difficulties and questions)
Vladimir Stipetić
; Faculty of tourism and hospitality management, University of Rijeka, Opatija, Croatia
Sažetak
Tourism is recognised as an important economic, social and cultural factor in modern societies. However, statisticians still face an enormous challenge when
it comes to measuring the economic importance of tourism for given national economy.
In his paper author examines the position of tourism in European System of Accounts (acronym ESA), from 1995. He comes to the conclusion that is impossible to get the full answers on the importance of tourism for the given national economy within those frameworks. The main reason for such conclusion he has found in the fact that tourism is the multifacet activity, with difficult concept to define, let alone measure.
He gets the proof for his conclusion by comparing the different methodologies for defining who is the tourist, finding in application at the moment six different criteria’s. The results obtained are, of course, differing considerably, what makes them strictly incompatibles. The comparison of such data's is for that reason difficult to make and when made comparative results are of limited use.
Author advocates a need to make on international level a Unified Tourism Economic Account (UTEA), covering the main activities of tourism sector. He regards the existing work by OECD and WTO as a good basis for further work.
Only when majority countries would make UTEA, based on accepted methodology, could be the cross-country comparison made on scientific basis.
Ključne riječi
globalisation and tourism; tourism through new international methodologies; necessity of Unified Tourism Economic Account
Hrčak ID:
182024
URI
Datum izdavanja:
30.12.1998.
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