Workshop on Tourism Statistics with a focus on the Caribbean
Session 1: The Measurement of Tourism for Better Policy
- Opening remarks - Mr. Manuel Butler, UNWTO Executive Director
- How can UNWTO support the Caribbean countries in the field of statistics? - Mr. Hernán Epstein, UN Tourism Chief of Statistics
- Tourism Statistics and Tourism Satellite Account: key ingredients for designing and monitoring tourism policies
- The value and advantages of official tourism statistics and TSA - Mr. Hernán Epstein, UN Tourim Chief of Statistics
- Institutional cooperation for the measurement of tourism - Ms. Leandry Moreno, UN Tourism Senior Tourism Statistics Specialist
- How to make the best use of tourism statistics and TSA data for tourism policies?
- Using visitor surveys to segment markets and measuring blue tourism - Mr. Kevin Millington, Director Acorn Tourism Consulting and UN Tourism Expert
- The Bahamas - Ms. Joy Jibrilu, Director General, Ministry of Tourism
- Jamaica - Ms. Jhanelle-Rae Bowie, Senior Director of Tourism Economics and facilitation, Ministry of Tourism
- COVID-19: measuring and monitoring its impact
- Global and regional state-of-affair - Mr. Hernán Epstein, UN Tourism Chief of Statistics
- Country experience
- Measuring tourism role for Sustainable Development
- Introduction to the Measuring the Sustainability of Tourism project and the SDG indicators related to tourism - Ms. Clara van der Pol, UN Tourism Coordinator of the Statistics Department
- Countries’ experiences
- Final remarks - Mr. Neil Walters, CTO Acting Secretary General
Session 2: How to Better Measure Tourism in the Caribbean Countries?
- Introduction - Mr. Hernán Epstein, UN Tourism Chief of Statistics
- Measuring the different forms of tourism: inbound, domestic and outbound tourism
- Main concepts, definitions, classifications and data sources - Ms. Leandry Moreno, UN Tourism Senior Tourism Statistics Specialist
- Measuring yacht visitors: challenges and solutions - Mr. Kevin Millington, Director Acorn Tourism Consulting and UN Tourism Expert
- Country experience
- Trinidad and Tobago: the perspective from Tobago - Mr. Les Warner, Research Analyst, Tourism Tobago Agency Limited
- Estimating tourism expenditure
- Main concepts, definitions, classifications and data sources - Ms. Leandry Moreno, UN Tourism Senior Tourism Statistics Specialist
- Tourism expenditure and Balance of Payments - Mr. Hernán Epstein, UN Tourism Chief of Statistics
- Countries’ experiences:
- Grenada - Ms. Sibongile Dickson, Research Officer, Grenada Tourism Authority
- Antigua and Barbuda - Ms. Marissa Scott, Statistician, Antigua & Barbuda Statistics Division
- Belize - Mr. Jefte Ochaeta, Statistician, Statistical Institute
- Understanding tourism industries and products
- Measuring employment in the tourism industries
- Main concepts, definitions and data sources - Ms. Leandry Moreno, UN Tourism Senior Tourism Statistics Specialist
- Key variables - Mr. Hernán Epstein, UN Tourism Chief of Statistics
- Country experience
- U.S. Virgin Islands - Ms. Bernesha Liburd, Division of Economic Research
- Conclusion and key recommendations on the way forward - Mr. Hernán Epstein, UN Tourism Chief of Statistics
