The purpose of this paper is a discussion of some major concepts and operational definitions involved in tourism statistics within Regulation 692/2011, with a cross-country comparison and an in-depth look at the Italian case. Data and information are derived from the main documents of major international and national institutions and Eurostat metadata. Both demand-side and supply-side data sources on tourism are discussed. The work highlights the main differences in the data production processes of different EU countries, although they follow the same regulation. The analysis is limited to those EU countries with complete available Eurostat metadata. The main contribution is concerned with the description of the current situation in the production of tourism statistics, by looking and their comparability for cross-country analyses and at the possibility of their integration and reconciliation in the perspective of building a system of tourism statistics.
Issues in tourism statistics: a critical review / Antolini Fabrizio, Grassini Laura. - In: SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH. - ISSN 1573-0921. - ELETTRONICO. - in pubblicazione:(2020), pp. 1-23. [10.1007/s11205-020-02361-4]
Issues in tourism statistics: a critical review
Grassini Laura
2020
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is a discussion of some major concepts and operational definitions involved in tourism statistics within Regulation 692/2011, with a cross-country comparison and an in-depth look at the Italian case. Data and information are derived from the main documents of major international and national institutions and Eurostat metadata. Both demand-side and supply-side data sources on tourism are discussed. The work highlights the main differences in the data production processes of different EU countries, although they follow the same regulation. The analysis is limited to those EU countries with complete available Eurostat metadata. The main contribution is concerned with the description of the current situation in the production of tourism statistics, by looking and their comparability for cross-country analyses and at the possibility of their integration and reconciliation in the perspective of building a system of tourism statistics.I documenti in FLORE sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.