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Tourism statistics are traditionally focusing on the accommodation sector on the one hand and the demand side (from a household perspective) on the other hand. The available tourism statistics relate mainly to physical flows: arrivals or nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments or trips made by residents of a country.

This article presents economic data extracted from other areas of official statistics, in particular structural business statistics (SBS) and short-term business statistics (STS), in order to provide users with a better economic analysis of this sector that is an important motor for many countries' economies and labour market.

However it should be pointed out that users are invited to carefully consult data sources and availability chapter before using the presented data in order to avoid overestimating the economic importance of tourism for some industries.

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Main statistical findings

The discussion here below refers to four selected indicators: number of enterprises, number of persons employed, turnover and value added at factor cost – firstly at EU level, secondly at country level.

In 2010, more than one in seven enterprises in the European non-financial business economy belonged to the tourism industries (see Table 2, Table 3, Figure 1). These 3.4 million enterprises employed an estimated 15.2 million persons. Enterprises in industries with tourism related activities accounted for 11 % of the persons employed in the non-financial business economy and 29 % of persons employed in the services sector.

The tourism industries' shares in total turnover and value added at factor cost were relatively lower, with the tourism industries accounting for 6 % of the turnover and 9 % of the value added of the non-financial business economy. These figures very likely reflect - among other explanations - the higher share of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises and of the level of part-time employment in some typical tourism industries.

As explained under data sources and availability chapter, tourism industries are not providing services only to tourists. Their employment, turnover, etc. can also be related to services provided to non-tourists. In Tables 2 and 3, the subdivision “mainly tourism” and “partially tourism” tries to take this into account. For instance, 3 million persons are employed in industries that are assumed to serve only exclusively to tourists while 12 million persons are employed in industries where the customers are likely to be a mix of tourists and non-tourists.


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