Classifications relevant for tourism statistics

The present chapter commences with a brief overview of the relevant classifications. The demand-side classifications of products and the classifications applied to visitors, trips, modes of transport, purpose of trip and forms of accommodation are examined in section B. Section C discusses the classifications of productive activities applied in describing supply. Section D focuses on the reconciliation between tourism demand and tourism supply, which permits information from different sources to be compared. Classifications of tourism-related occupations are considered in section E. The last section considers the need to link international classifications to each country’s specific classifications as well as its particular tourism reality.

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