Tourism Statistics

Abstract

This paper will deal solely with the movement of persons at frontiers. The data were supplied by immigration/emigration offices and by hotels. The reports of the different bodies such as the League of Nations through the World Tourism Organization, United Nations Organization and the various specialized organizations were used to define the guiding principles for the establishment of reliable and comparable tourism statistics. One of the objectives of this Seminar is to provide participants and African States with the methods of collecting, analyzing, presenting and disseminating statistical data needed for a harmonious and integrated development of tourist industries and movement of persons. After this brief history of and visitors and United Nations 1963 definition as accepted by the Chapter I. The development of the concepts of statistical experts, we shall give International Tourism Organization in tourists the Rome Chapter II will be devoted to frontier statistics prepared on the basis of data collected from frontier posts, which are generally centralized in frontier control offices. Chapter the methods offices. III will deal with of compiling tourism hotel statistics accompanied by an essay on statistics by national tourism or statistics The last chapter will focus on administrative measures for the collection, processing and utilization of tourism statistics.