Workshop on Indicators of
Sustainable Development for Tourism Destinations
Bohol, Philippines, 15-18 October 2007
The Philippine Tourism Satellite
Account (PTSA)
by
Dr. Romulo A. Virola
during the “Workshop on Indicators of
Sustainable Development for Tourism Destinations”
Bohol,Philippines, 15-18 October 2007
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Contents
I. Introduction
II. The PTSA and the International
Systems and Standards
III. Sources and Methods
IV. Some Results and Highlights
V. Limitations
VI. The Way Forward
- including Expansion to Subnational TSA
VII. Concluding Remarks
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 Philippine tourism and the economy
 The warmth, wealth and wonders of the
Philippines as driver to economic growth:
 an archipelago of wonders
 vast mountains and volcanoes tell of great legends
 shimmering waters and a tropical lure travelers all
year round
 has fusion of culture and arts enhancing the
uniqueness of the Filipino
 offers world-class facilities and services
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 Philippine tourism and the economy
 What the indicators say about our country’s
tourism industry?
 From January to July 2007, international
visitor arrivals already hit 1.8 million mark!
 July visitor arrivals increase by 11.26%
 Five million visitors targeted in the
Medium Term Philippine Development Plan
(MTPDP) for 2010 achievable
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 Philippine tourism and the economy
 … and how about the performance of tourism
related services as reported in the national
accounts of the Philippines?
 Gross Value Added (GVA) of Hotels and
Restaurants more than doubled its growth
in Q2 2007 to 9.8 percent from 4.0 percent of
the same period in 2006!
 Recreational Services grew by 7.5 % in Q2
2007 compared to just 0.6 % in Q2 2006!
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 Philippine tourism and the economy
 …some more indicators!
 Transportation and Communication
continues accelerated growth:
• Air transportation services in Q2 2007
surpassed its performance a year ago
with a hefty growth of 13.8 percent owing
to vigorous promotions by domestic
airlines and tourism-related promotion
activities
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 How about Central Visayas?
 Indicators from the Gross Regional Domestic
Product (GRDP) 2006 estimates:
 Region VII is among the five largest
regional economies, with a share of 7.1 % of
the entire economy, next only to NCR,
Region IV-A, Region III and Region VI
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 How about Central Visayas?
 Indicators from the Gross Regional Domestic
Product (GRDP) 2006 estimates:
 However, in Services, where the bulk of Tourism
industries can be found, Region VII ranks 3rd after
NCR and CALABARZON!
 In Transportation, Communication and Storage
(TCS), it ranks 4th for the entire Philippines and the
highest among Visayas and Mindanao Regions!
 It is 2nd in Private Services, next to the National
Capital Region (NCR)!
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 Other highlights of Tourism related sectors of
Region VII
 Private Services continues to rise!
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 Other highlights of Tourism related sectors of
Region VII
 Transportation, Communication and Storage also
showed consistent upward trend!
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 On interpretation of the statistics from the previous
slides:
 Tourism
characteristic activities came
mostly from the two major sectors
mentioned: private services and
transportation, communication and storage
(TCS)
 Private services include hotel and
restaurant services, and recreational
services while TCS includes transportation
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 On interpretation of the statistics from the previous
slides:
 However,
it should be noted that the two
sectors mentioned include other services
which are not, to a large extent related to
tourism industry
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 The PTSA, tourism indicators and the
economy
 What is Philippine Tourism Satellite
Accounts (PTSA) ?
 The PTSA is one of the satellite accounts
developed by the NSCB to measure the
contribution of tourism to the Philippine
economy.
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 The PTSA, tourism indicators and the
economy
 What is Philippine Tourism Satellite
Accounts (PTSA) ?
 patterned after the tourism satellite account
(TSA) developed by UNSD, UNWTO, OECD and
EUROSTAT, and approved by the United Nations
Statistical Commission
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 The PTSA, tourism indicators and the
economy
 Importance of the PTSA
 it provides a comprehensive set of
information on tourism that facilitates its
analysis in the context of macro-economic
accounts
• tourism is still embedded somewhere in
the different sectors of the national accounts
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 The PTSA, tourism indicators and the
Economy!
 Components of the PTSA
 it cuts across many sectors of the economy:
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Accommodation services (hotel, motels, lodging houses etc)
•
Food and beverage serving activities (restaurants, canteens, etc)
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Transportation services (air, land & water)
•
Travel agencies and other reservation service activities
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Cultural activities
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Sports and recreational activities
•
Retail services of tourism goods (such as souvenirs)
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 Development of the PTSA

The Philippines efforts in developing the TSA
– 1988: NSCB and DOT research study to
explore the contribution of tourism to the
Philippine economy using the input-output
approach (IO)
– tourism accounted for 2.8 percent in 1987
– 1996: DOT, WTTC & NSCB collaborated closely
to develop a SAT in the country
– travel and tourism accounted for 8.7 % in 1997
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 Development of the PTSA

The Philippines efforts in developing the TSA
– December 5, 1996: NSCB and DOT signed a
MOA to support the development of SAT
– January 27, 1997: the IAC on DSAT was
created
– 1997: DOT, WTTC and NSCB conducted a study
using the simulated satellite accounting
approach
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 Development of the PTSA

The Philippine efforts in developing the TSA
– 1999: NSCB and DOT forged a project that
pursued the initial compilation of the PTSA
covering the years 1994 and 1998
– 2001 (February): the Philippine experience in
developing tourism satellite account was
presented in a joint UN-ESCAP/WTO workshop
in Thailand
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 Development of the PTSA

The Philippine efforts in developing the TSA
– 2001 (October): the paper “Measuring the
Contribution of Tourism to the Economy: The
Philippine Tourism Satellite Account” was
presented during the 8th National Convention
on Statistics
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 Development of the PTSA

The Philippine efforts in developing the TSA
– 2005: NSCB Executive Board Approve the
NSCB Resolution Number 4 series of 2005
“Approving and Adopting the Philippine Tourism
Classification System”
– 2006-2007: draft estimates, 2000-2005
– 2006-2007: Efforts towards the measurement of
health and wellness tourism in the Philippines
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II. The PTSA & the International Systems
and Standards
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 Major International Standard
Recommendations used by the PTSA

International Recommendations on Tourism
Statistics (IRTS)
– Prepared by the United Nations Expert Group
on Tourism Statistics (EGTS), UNWTO and
UNSD
– Latest version – version 5
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International Recommendations on Tourism
Statistics (IRTS)
– It aims to present a system of definitions, concepts,
classifications and indicators that are internally
consistent, and that facilitate the link to the
conceptual framework for the integration of tourism
statistics, the tourism satellite accounts (TSA), as
well as to other conceptual frameworks, such as
national accounts, balance of payments and labor
statistics
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Recommendations used by the PTSA
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Tourism Satellite Account: Recommended
Methodological Framework (TSA:RMF)
– Developed by the Commission of the European
Communities, OECD, UNWTO, UN
– Presents a common conceptual framework for
the design of tourism satellite account
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 Major International Standard Recommendations
used by the PTSA – TSA:RMF
– It builds upon the consistency of other statistical
framework and provides an additional resource to
link tourism statistics to the standard tables of the
SNA from a functional perspective.
– This instrument increases the consistency among
the different data sources that are used, thus, it is
then possible to estimate a series of variables that
are required to establish more accurately the
economic contributions of tourism and its links to
the rest of a national economy.
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 Related Major Macroeconomic Frameworks
 The System of National Accounts (SNA)
 Central framework for the compilation of
national accounts
 Flexibility to extend the system to the socalled functionally-oriented satellite
accounts
 international standard accounting system
used by the Philippine System of National
Accounts (PSNA)
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 Related Major Macroeconomic Frameworks
 The System of National Accounts (SNA)
- Philippine
System of National Accounts
(PSNA)
- measures
the economic performance of
the country
- compilation of Gross Domestic Product
(GDP) and Gross National Product (GNP)
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 Related Major Macroeconomic Frameworks
 The Philippines System of National Accounts
(PSNA)
- flexible and can be expanded to satellite
accounting (I.e., health, environment,
education, tourism)
- for tourism (PTSA), the estimates cut
across different sectors of the economy
(mentioned in the previous slides)
- travel is estimated in the PSNA as part of
export/import of non-factor services
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 The Philippines System of National Accounts
(PSNA)
can be broken down into subnational
accounts
-
- compilation of Gross Regional Domestic
Product (GRDP) and Gross Regional
Domestic Expenditure (GRDE) of the 17
administrative regions of the Philippines
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 Related Major Macroeconomic Frameworks
 The Philippines System of National Accounts
(PSNA)
- compilation of Gross Provincial Domestic
Product (GPDP)
- on going cooperation project between NSCB and
provincial government of Guimaras for the
estimation of provincial product account
- moving towards the computation of
Gross National Happiness (GNH)
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 Related Major Macroeconomic Frameworks
 The Balance of Payments (BOP)
 BOP focuses on the description of the
economic relationship between residents
and non-residents.
 It comprises transactions associated with
international tourism.
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 Related Major Macroeconomic Frameworks
 The Balance of Payments (BoP)
 In BOP, tourism correspond to the
component “Travel” – in two dimensions:
- Travel credits cover goods and
services…acquired from an economy by
nonresidents during visits to that economy;
- Travel debits cover goods and
services… acquired from other economies by
residents during visits to other economies
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 Related Major Macroeconomic Frameworks
 Input Output (IO) Account
 provide basis to establish the benchmark
production account for tourism
 primary data source in computing tourism
ratios used to estimate tourism value added
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III. Sources and Methods
 Data Sources
 Derived statistics: (NSCB) National Accounts,
Input-Output Accounts
 Surveys: (DOT) Annual Visitors Sample Survey,
Sample Survey of Regional Travelers in
Accommodation; (NSO) Labor Force Survey
 Census: (NSO) Census of Philippine Business
and Industries
 Administrative data: (DOT) Statistical Report;
(DBM) General Appropriations Act, Annual
Reports of the General Government
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 Conceptual Framework
 Supply and use of tourism goods and
services
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Shows the output of tourism industries
vis-a-vis the consumption expenditures
of tourists
Physical/non monetary indicators
• explain the impact of tourism through nonmonetary indicators such as tourist arrivals,
length of stay, types of accommodation and
means of transport availed by the tourists
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 Compilation Methodologies
 Tourism consumption expenditure
• Derived by summing up visitor consumption
expenditure, government consumption
expenditure (expenditures of government
agencies identified to be providing collective
tourism services), and gross fixed capital
formation.
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 Compilation Methodologies
 Value added of tourism industries (VATI)
• Estimated from the Use and Make Matrices
of the IO table
• Production output of the characteristic
tourism industry is taken from the industry
by commodity make matrix
• Intermediate inputs and value added
components were lifted from the commodity
by industry use matrix
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 Compilation Methodologies
 Ratio of tourism demand to tourism
supply (tourism ratios)
• Total supply of tourism characteristic
products to meet the demand of tourism
consumption were derived from the
commodity by commodity matrix of the IO
table
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 Compilation Methodologies
Tourism employment
• Employment generated by tourism
industries was sourced from the Labor
Force Survey (LFS)
• Employment data from the Census of
Philippine Business and Industries (CPBI)
and Statistical Report of DOT were used for
disaggregating by type of tourism activities
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 Non-monetary indicators
• sourced from the survey results and
statistical report of DOT
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 PTSA Tables
LIST OF THE PHILIPPINE TOURISM SATELLITE ACCOUNT TABLES
Table 1
Table 4
Tourism Demand in the Philippines
In Million Pesos, At Current Prices,
1994 and 1998
Tourism Consumption Expenditures in the Philippines
In Million Pesos, At Current Prices,
1994 and 1998
Tourism Collective Consumption Expenditures in the
Philippines
In Million Pesos, At Current Prices,
1994 and 1998
Gross Fixed Capital Formation of Tourism Industries
Table 5
in the Philippines
In Million Pesos, At Current Prices,
1994 and 1998
Estimated Value Added of Tourism Industries in the Philippines
Table 2
Table 3
Table 6
Table 7
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In Million Pesos, At Current Prices,
1994 and 1998
Production Accounts of Tourism and Non-Tourism Industries
in the Philippines
1994 and 1998
Supply and Use Table of Tourism and Non-Tourism Industries
in the Philippines
In Million Pesos, At Current Prices,
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LIST OF THE PHILIPPINE TOURISM SATELLITE ACCOUNT TABLES
Table 8
Table 9
Table 10a
Table 10b
Table 10c
Table 10d
Table 11
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Estimated Tourism Ratio Based on the Tourism Final Demand
1994 and 1998
Employment Generated by the Tourism Industries
in the Philippines
In Million Pesos, At Current Prices,
1994 and 1998
Tourist Arrivals in the Philippines
1994 and 1998
Inbound Tourist Arrivals in the Philippines
1994 and 1998
Main Means of Transportation of Inbound Tourist by
Country of Residence and Port of Entry in the Philippines
1994 and 1998
Forms of Accommodations Available for Tourists in the
Philippines
Comparison of the WTO and WTTC Results on
Selected Expenditure Items
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 Tourism Consumption Expenditures in the Philippines by Type of
Services, 1994 and 1998 (At Current Prices)
19%
12%
1998
2%
5%
21%
41%
27%
18%
1994
2%
Retail trade services
Recreation, entertainment and cultural services
5%
18%
31%
Travel agents, tour operators and tourism guide
Passenger transport services
Restaurants and similar services
Hotels and similar services
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 Tourism Consumption Expenditures in the Philippines as a
Percent of PCE and Export, 1994 and 1998
(At Current Prices)
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1994
1998
Share of Domestic Tourism
Consumption to PCE
2%
4%
Share of Inbound Tourism
Consumption to Export
11%
7%
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 Tourism Share to Capital Formation and Government Expenditures,
1994 and 1998 (At Current Prices)
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1994
1998
Tourism Collective Consumption
Expenditure as a Share to Total
Government Expenditures
22%
26%
Tourism Gross Fixed Capital Formation
as a Share to Total GFCF
3%
1%
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 Estimated Value Added of Tourism Industries (VATI) in the
Philippines, 1994 and 1998(At Current Prices)
54%
10%
1998
1%
20%
12%
4%
Share of Value Added of Tourism
Industries (VATI) to the country's
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at
Current Prices
57%
1994
1998
12%
13%
9%
<1%
1994
20%
10%
3%
Retail trade services
Recreation, entertainment and cultural services
Travel agencies and similar
Passenger transport services
Restaurants and similar services
Hotels and similar services
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 Conceptual issues

Frequency and distance dimension of the
concept of usual environment
 Operational issues

Computation of tourism share/TVA
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Frequency of compilation
 Data Limitations
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
Coverage
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Data gaps
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DATA REQUIREMENTS NEEDED IN THE COMPILATION OF THE PTSA THAT ARE STILL UNAVAILABLE
DATA GAPS TO BE ADDRESSED
VARIABLES
● undercoverage on the estimation of 1. Inbound tourism consumption
internal tourism consumption
expenditures of tourists on equipment
expenditures
rental services
2. Tourism expenditures of same-day
visitors (domestic and if any, inbound
visitors)
3. Pre-travel consumption expenditures of
residents going abroad
4. Tourism expenditures of households in
behalf of tourists
REMARKS
not currently captured by the DOT's
AVSS
may be integrated into the existing
surveys of the DOT
the A/D cards can be modified to
address this concern
maybe requested as special
tabulations of FIES results (would
incur additional costs)
3. Tourism business expenses
data available from the MICE study
4. Other tourism consumption
other than the individual non-market
expenditures on social transfers in kind cultural services which is already
captured in the current estimates
5. Outbound tourism consumption
maybe sourced from the WTO
expenditures
Compendium and/or PATA data
to provide the data submitted by the
in terms of expenditures of Filipinos
during their stay in the foreign
countries
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LIMITATIONS OF THE DATA VARIABLES USED IN THE COMPILATION OF THE PRELIMINARY PTSA
PTSA AGGREGATES
DATA SOURCE
DATA VARIABLES
Agency
1. Inbound tourism
consumption
expenditures of
tourists
2. Domestic tourism
consumption
expenditures of
tourists
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● expenditure of inbound tourists
on the service charge for
packaged tours
DOT
● expenditure of inbound tourists
on passenger transport
DOT
● expenditure of domestic tourists
by item
DOT
● expenditure of domestic tourists
on passenger transport
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LIMITATIONS OF THE DATA
VARIABLES
AVSS (survey)/
● the data is available only at an
Statistical Report
aggregated level which corresponds to
(admin-based data)
both the service charge of the packaged
tour operators and the other
components of tourism consumption
expenditures paid by the tourists (e.g.,
air fare, hotels, tour visits, etc.)
AVSS (survey)/
● no further breakdown as to land,
Statistical Report
water or air
(admin-based data)
SSRTA (survey)
● the basic data for the 1998 estimates
Statistical Report
were extrapolated based on the 1994
(admin-based data)
and 1997 results ofthe survey
● respondents of the survey are limited to
DOT accredited accommodation
establishments only
SSRTA (survey)
● no further breakdown as to land, water
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or air
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3. Tourism
consumption
expenditures in kind
(transfers)
4. Tourism collective
consumption
expenditures
●
●
●
5. Tourism Gross Fixed ●
Capital Formation
LIMITATIONS OF THE DATA
VARIABLES
Agency
Publication
expenditures of tourists on
Nayong
Financial Statements ● there no breakdown of entrance fees
cultural services
Filipino,
reported in the FS to determine the
Intramuros,
expenditures between inbound and
Fort Santiago
domestic tourism
Program of expenditures on
DBM
GAA
● the data on budget do not reflect
PS and MOOE of government
(admin-based data)
the actual expenditures of the
agencies whose mandates are
government
for tourism-related services
Actual expenditures on PS
DBM
AFR
● the disaggregation of the available data
and MOOE
(admin-based data)
do not have a one-on-one
correspondence with those of the WTO
Program of expenditures for
DBM
GAA
● the budget do not reflect the actual
government agencies with
(admin-based data)
expenditures on the government's
tourism capital formation
capital formation
● Capital formation of entities/
establishments from the
private sector for 1998
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DATA SOURCE
DATA VARIABLES
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ASE
● account for 1998 has not been estimated
(survey based data)
yet pending on the availability of the
1998 ASE results
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 Refinements in Estimation Methodology
 Adopting the approved Philippine Tourism
Statistical Classification System in
classifying tourism industries
 Compilation of PTSA estimates for the most
recent years (2000-2006)
 Maximize the use of available data
 Study the result of the Household Survey
on Domestic Visitors
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 Maximize the use of available data
 Evaluate the data from the DOT Regional
and Provincial Offices
 Enhancing the scope and coverage
 Highlighting the emergence of tourism
products such as Health and Wellness
tourism
 Expanding the PTSA to Subnational TSA
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 The IRTS recommends to limit the
subnational statistics to two different types
of levels:
 the region, identified as the administrative
unit corresponding to the first level of
territorial disaggregation of a country in
terms of its political and administrative
organization, e.g., Region VII
 The local tourism destination, treated as a
sub-regional territory with substantial
tourism activity, e.g., Bohol
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 Coordination and collaboration mechanisms
in the PSS must be strengthened further
 Enhance the role of local government units
(LGUs) in the generation of data relevant to the
PTSA and the entire tourism statistics
 Concerned data compiling government
agencies like the DOT, NSCB and the NSO
should try harder to collect and disseminate
the necessary tourism statistics
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 households, establishments and data
source agencies from government must show
greater willingness and to provide support to
data collection efforts
 tourism planners from both the private
sector and government should develop the
capacity to use statistics in their decisionmaking and policy formulation
 government and the private sector should
develop the ‘political will to invest in statistics’
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Visit the National Statistical Coordination Board at
URL : www.nscb.gov.ph
Email: info@nscb.gov.ph
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