Benefits resulting from a Tourism Satellite Account for the compilation of national accounts
- Autores: Antonio Massieu Verdugo
- Localización: Estudios Turísticos, ISSN-e 3020-6723, ISSN 0423-5037, Nº. Extra 161-162, 2004 (Ejemplar dedicado a: International forums on tourism statistics 1994-2004), págs. 27-41
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
If it is current to consider the benefits brought by SNA93 to the compilation of a TSA, it is not as common to discuss the benefits that such an approach might bring to the overall quality and consistency of the system of national accounts of a country. Novertheless, it is important to understand that a SNA compilation may greatly benefit from the elaboration of a TSA, so that such a program should not be considered as an additional burden put on the teams in charge of the compilation of national accounts. On the contrary, it should be viewed as an opportunity to benefit from the collaboration with other bodies to improve important aspects of the accounts. Obviously, it depends on the relative importance of tourism in an economy, but in most cases, it is thought that such an exercise might bring important benefits to the proper representation of some economic activities mostly concerned with tourism. This paper tries to underline those benefits, and be an encouragement for national accounts compilers to collaborate and put all their efforts in generating and using an information not usually used for a national accounts compilation into that particular aspect of the econornic reality.
