Chair: Ms. Haishan Fu, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)

Keynote by Mr. Paul Cheung, UNSD and Mr. Antonio Massieu, UNWTO: “Implementing the new International Recommendations for Tourism Statistics 2008 (IRTS 2008)” (text)

Panel:

• Mr. Mohammed Al-Ahmed, Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities: “Designing the development of a national STS: the special case of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia” (ppt)
• Mr. Leigh Harry, Joint Meetings Industry Council: “Measuring the economic importance of the meetings industry” (ppt)
• Mr. Peter Laimer, Statistics Austria: “Measuring seasonality in tourism statistics” (ppt)

Speakers profile and abstracts

Background documents

• Understanding tourism: basic glossary
• UNWTO Project on the Dissemination of International Recommendations on Tourism Statistics & Tourism Satellite Account (summary)
• International Recommendations for Tourism Statistics 2008 (IRTS 2008)
• System of Tourism Statistics (STS)
  • The System of Tourism Statistics and its links with the National Statistical System
  • International comparability and national systems of tourism statistics: the basic information network
• Statistics Capacity-building Programmes
• Global Meetings Initiative
  • Volume 1
  • Volume 2
  • Volume 3

Documents

• unsd_unwto_eng.pdf
• scta.pdf
• icca.pdf
• laimer.pdf
• speakers1.pdf
• glossary.pdf
• dissemination_0.pdf
• industry01.pdf
• industry02.pdf
• industry03.pdf

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