Articles of category "Travel industry statistics"

In recent years, in hotel statistics along with the quantitative information on the flow of visitors and descriptive information on the conditions in which visitors stay, countries now need robust information and indicators to enhance the credibility of the measurements concerning the economic importance of hotel industry. The main indicators in the hotel statistics are: Room Occupancy Rate, Average Length of Stay, Turnover For Hotel Accommodations and others.

Tourism is an activity which has grown substantially over the last thirty years as an economic and social phenomenon. In the past, the tourism statistics focused on the characteristics of visitors, on the conditions in which they travelled and stayed, the purpose of visit, etc. Now there is an increasing awareness of the role that tourism is playing in the economy in terms of generation of value added, employment, personal income, government income, etc.