Available data collections for tourism statistics

Monthly data on tourism industries:

• Nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments, broken down by origin of the guest and type of establishment.
• Arrivals at tourist accommodation establishments, broken down by origin of the guest and type of establishment.
• Net occupancy rate of bed-places and bedrooms in hotels and similar accommodation.

Annual data on tourism industries:

• Nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments, broken down by origin of the guest, type of establishment, region, type of the locality where the establishment is located and size of the establishment.
• Arrivals at tourist accommodation establishments, broken down by origin of the guest, type of establishment and region.
• Net occupancy rate of bed-places and bedrooms in hotels and similar accommodation by size of the establishment and region.
• Capacity of tourist accommodation establishments (establishments, bedrooms and bed places, broken down by type of establishment, region, type of the locality where the establishment is located and size of the establishment).
• Employment in the accommodation sector (Source: Labour Force Survey) broken down by working time (full/part time), working status, age, level of education, sex, permanency and seniority of work with the same employer (annual and quarterly data).

Annual data on trips of EU residents:

• Number of tourists broken down duration of the trips, destination and by socio-demographic characteristics of the tourist.
• Number of trips and nights broken down by purpose, duration, destination, month of departure, mode of transport and type of accommodation and by socio-demographic characteristics of the tourist.
• Expenditure on trips broken down by expenditure category, by characteristics of the trip and by socio-demographic characteristics of the tourist.

Annual enterprise statistics:

These data come from the Structural business statistics (SBS) which are a rich and comprehensive source of information on businesses in the EU.

Data is available at 4-digit level of NACE and includes a wide range of economic indicators, however most economic activities are not exclusively serving to and relying on tourists.

Eurostat is currently exploring ways to integrate SBS and/or STS (short-term business statistics) data for certain so-called 'tourism characteristic activities' in the tourism statistics databases. First results of this exercise are presented in a Statistics in Focus publication: Tourism industries - economic analysis - Issue number 32/2013.