Modernisation programme for social statistics Item 3.8 Tourism statistics collected from households Directors of Social Statistics meeting February 2015, Luxembourg August Götzfried EUROSTAT – Unit G-3 "Short-term business statistics and tourism"

Quick memo on tourism statistics  Legal framework: REGULATION 692/2011  Entered into force in 2011, first reference year = 2012  Two main parts  Tourism supply (see Annex I "internal tourism") – monthly/annual  collected from tourist accommodation establishment (NACE )  aggregate/tabular data  candidate for FRIBS  Tourism demand (see Annex II "national tourism") – annual/triennial  collected from households/individuals (residents of the EU)  aggregate/tabular data (Sections 1, 3) & micro-data (Section 2)  candidate for IESS 2

State-of-play FRIBS vs. tourism supply  The tourism sector "as such" is covered by business statistics  E.g. via SBS, STS that produce economic information on the sector  Coverage of "tourism variables" by FRIBS?  Variables specific for the accommodation sector such as nights spent, arrivals, occupancy rates, etc.  BSDG, June 2013: "inclusion at a later stage" (see also SES, LCS)  first better integrate tourism registers into business registers  statistical unit (local kind-of-activity unit)  quid Annex II on tourism demand if Annex I goes to FRIBS? 3

Possible scenarios 1 - Integration of tourism statistics in FRIBS and IESS  Dismantling of Regulation 692/2011  Better integration of tourism statistics into the ESS architecture (business statistics, social statistics)  Improved consistency and comparability with other business and social statistics, thus improved relevance for users  But:  loss of the current integrated framework for tourism statistics  impact on burden (e.g. fully implement the 'core social variables'?)  technical issues (e.g. combination of aggregate data and micro-data versus the IESS architecture) 4

Possible scenarios 2 – No action  Keep Regulation 692/2011  Maintain the current integrated framework for tourism statistics  Regulation entered into force only a few years ago  But:  FRIBS/IESS aims at making statistics fit for the next decade  Tourism statistics can miss the "momentum" and risks to become an isolated island in statistics, attracting less visitors/users in the long term 5

Revising the existing legislation  No intention to review the requirements under Regulation 692/2011  Recently entered into force (2011)  Fine-tuning / alignment where needed for smooth integration  short term  But notwithstanding an evaluation / possible revision if needed  mid to long term 6

Exchange of Views questionnaire  No explicit consultation on item 3.8  Some feedback from Member states (taken from the feedback on Article 2)  ES: supports the inclusion in the IESS (under unchanged conditions)  PL: recommends the exclusion from the IESS as this could lead to an increase of burden on respondents;  BG/IE/UK: recommend not to cover tourism statistics in the IESS (inter alia as the tourism statistics regulation is only from 2011)  But no feedback from 23 out of 28 Member States, so… 7

The floor is open for discussion ! 8