Economic Contribution and SDG
Implementation of standards accounting tools to monitor the economic and environmental aspects of tourism sustainability (indicator 12.b.1)
Indicator 12.b.1 shows the preparedness of countries to “develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts for sustainable tourism” called for in target 12.b under Goal 12 on Sustainable Consumption and Production. More specifically, it tracks the implementation of the most relevant Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) and System of Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA) tables.
* Source: Data compiled from countries by UNWTO through annual statistical questionnaires.
** The boundaries and names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the UNWTO.
In the past, the UNWTO has conducted studies on the implementation of the TSA:RMF 2008, the latest being available here.
Implementation of standards accounting tools to monitor the economic and environmental aspects of tourism sustainability (indicator 12.b.1)
Indicator 12.b.1 shows the preparedness of countries to “develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts for sustainable tourism” called for in target 12.b under Goal 12 on Sustainable Consumption and Production. More specifically, it tracks the implementation of the most relevant Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) and System of Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA) tables.
* Source: Data compiled from countries by UNWTO through annual statistical questionnaires.
** The boundaries and names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the UNWTO.
In the past, the UNWTO has conducted studies on the implementation of the TSA:RMF 2008, the latest being available here.
Other tourism-related SDG indicators
Tourism GDP
Tourism Direct GDP refers to the economic contribution of tourism.
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System of Tourism Statistics is embedded in the National Statistical System, providing of reliable, consistent and appropriate statistical information on the socio-economic aspects related to tourism, integrated within the economic and social statistics related to other fields
UN Tourism’s Statistics, Standards and Data Department has coordinated important developments relating to the conceptualization of tourism and its measurement, progressively building consensus amongst the international statistical community
The United Nations recognizes UN Tourism as the appropriate organization to collect, to analyze, to publish, to standardize and to improve the statistics of tourism, and to promote the integration of these statistics within the sphere of the United Nations system