Fifth meeting - Expert Group on Measuring the Sustainability of Tourism
UN Tourism Headquarters, Madrid, 1st October 2024
The 5th meeting of the Expert Group on Measuring the Sustainability of Tourism was held in UN Tourism Headquarters, Madrid, Spain on 1st October 2024.
Presentations
Session 2. Endorsement of the Statistical Framework for MST
- Statistical Framework for Measuring the Sustainability of Tourism, by Clara van der Pol, Director a.i, Statistics, Standards and Data Department, UN Tourism (see presentation)
Session 3. Towards and implementation strategy
- Towards an implementation strategy for MST, by Leandry Moreno, Programme Officer, Statistics, Standards and Data Department, UN Tourism (see presentation)
- SEEA Implementation: Key lessons, by Sokol Vako, Lead of the Working Group on Implementation and Statistical Capacity of the UN Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting (UNCEEA) (see presentation)
- Measuring tourism’s environmental impact in the Nordics, by Kathrine Lindeskov Johansen, Centre for Regional and Tourism Research (CRT), Denmark (see presentation)
Session 4. Core set of MST-based indicators
- Core set of MST-based indicators, by Leandry Moreno, Programme Officer, Statistics, Standards and Data Department, UN Tourism (see presentation)
- Proposal of indicators for measuring the sustainability of tourism for policy decision making in line with SF-MST, paper prepared by the Regional Government of Andalusia, In2Destination and University of Malaga (see presentation) (see document)
Session 5. MST developments in countries
- MST developments in countries, by Raul Figueroa, National Statistical Institution for Statistics and Geography (INEGI), Mexico (see presentation)
- Sustainability of Tourism in Brazil: An analysis based on the SF-MST, by Paula Schulz dos Santos, Brazil Tourist Board (EMBRATUR) (see presentation)
- Canadian Wealth and Wellbeing Framework, by Michel Dubreuil, Destination Canada (see presentation)
- Measuring and valueing sustainability in tourism: sustainability indicators for German tourism, by Martin Balas, ReCet, Germany (see presentation)
Background documents
- Terms of Reference of the Expert Group on Measuring the Sustainability of Tourism
- Report of UN Tourism on tourism statistics to the 55th session of the UN Statistical Commission
- Statistical Framework for Measuring the Sustainability of Tourism version endorsed by the United Nations Statistical Commission
