Current Global Initiatives to Address the Sustainability Challenge in Tourism Scoping a ‘Tourism and environment reporting mechanism – TOUERM’ 7 th July 2014

SDGs

10YFP Accelerating the change towards sustainable consumption and production patterns

SIDS 3 rd International Conference on Small Islands Developing States, Samoa, September 2014

WCDRR Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction Sendai, March 2015

GOST UNWTO Global Observatories on Sustainable Tourism

Nara Tourism Statistics Week UNWTO Special Workshop on Tourism Statistics Nara, Japan, November 2014

Report on the Economic Value of Wildlife Watching Tourism

Committee on Tourism and Sustainability (CTS)

Composition Bahamas (Chair) Bolivia China Iran, Islamic Republic of Iraq Israel (Vice-Chair) Senegal Serbia Seychelles Flemish Community of Belgium, Representative of the Associate Members Instituto para la Calidad Turística Española (ICTE), Representative of the Affiliate Members

UNWTO’s statistical mandate We are recognized as the appropriate organisation to collect, to analyze, to publish, to standardise and to improve the statistics of tourism. 1. Striving for international comparability, through development of standards 2. Securing international comparability through the implementation of standards, compilation of international data and indicators, 3. Dissemination, encouraging analysis and use by tourism stakeholders 4. Direct support to countries : Capacity Building and technical assistance Statistics is more than numbers: it is a PROCESS

You managed what you measure MeasurementAnalysisPolicy/Strategy FormulationImplementation and MonitoringEvaluation “Statistics permeate modern life. They are the basis for many governmental, business and community decisions” Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary-General, on World Statistics Day (2010)

The 2008 international consensus Tourism as an economic sector (i.e. GDP, etc.) supported by all UN countries and ILO, IMF, World Bank, WTO, European Commission IRTS 2008: concepts, definitions, classifications for basic tourism statistics TSA: RMF 2008: framework for the economic measurement of tourism consistent with SNA, BoP System of Tourism Statistics Credible, comparable statistics

UNWTO develops guidelines to implement UNWTO develops guidelines to implement these international standards Compilation guide on tourism statistics World-wide consultation Adopted by the UN Statistical Commission in 2014

Regarding Tourism Statistics (IRTS 2008) Insight of tourism’s multiple facets – 145 indicators Inbound, outbound, domestic tourism, tourism industries and employment; and macroeconomic indicators – 209 countries Enables analysis of: one country’s current situation; one country’s historical evolution since 1995; many countries at a point in time; many countries over time Useful tool and reference guide for Member States for advocacy, policy design, results-based management and strategy Published since 1975 In 2011, the content of the Compendium had been expanded with new indicators. For the 2014 edition, a great number of countries provided us with their figures:  Tourism industries: 188 countries  Employment: 87 countries  Domestic tourism: 108 countries  Macroeconomic indicators: 170 countries In 2011, the content of the Compendium had been expanded with new indicators. For the 2014 edition, a great number of countries provided us with their figures:  Tourism industries: 188 countries  Employment: 87 countries  Domestic tourism: 108 countries  Macroeconomic indicators: 170 countries You manage what you measure ! Compiled into the most comprehensive statistical tourism database:

Compendium of Tourism Statistics: some examples You look up the Compendium if you want to know, e.g. The number of hotels in Cyprus? The turn-over (in US$) of travel agencies in Spain? The number of self-employed in tourism industries in Canada? The number of departures from Belgium with an overnight stay? and how many returned on the same day? The number of arrivals by railway in Lithuania? The expenditures (in US$) of business arrivals in Uganda? The tourism balance (in % of GDP) of Argentina? ….

Thank you! Dr. Dirk Glaesser Dr. Oliver Herrmann World Tourism Organization ………………………………….. Tel: Fax: