Kiri

Dear Aleksandr,

There was a typo in your e-mail address. Now with correct address. In case you want to reply, please reply to all included in the message below.

Christophe

Dear Aleksandr,

Dear colleagues from Statistics Estonia,

I’d like to follow-up on our talk of last week at the OECD Working Party on Tourism Statistics / OECD Tourism Committee in Paris.

Eurostat is currently collecting data from countries relating to Tourism Satellite Accounts, following a template that is being used for the sixth time and that provided since 2010 every three years EU and national users with relevant data on the place of tourism in the EU economies.

A next publication is foreseen for October 2025.

We already received data (or will soon receive data) from more than 20 Member States. It would of course be desirable (for us, but most likely also from your stakeholders?) that Estonian TSA could be included in this endeavour.

We can still receive national datasets until more or less end May / early June.

We hope you can do the necessary to allow that Estonia can be included in this (voluntary) three-yearly pan-EU collection of TSA data.

Thanks for letting us know what the prospects are, and in the (hopefully) positive case when we would be able to expect the data (for your info and convenience, I re-attach the template; in the mail below you find some more general guidelines that were issued when the exercise was launched last December).

Would you have questions, don’t hesitate to contact us.

If you have questions on the TSA compilation more specifically, you can address these to Peter Laimer, Pavel Vancura and Zdenek Lesjek who are in copy.

PS: we did take good note of the mail of 27/02/2025 informing that Estonia would not participate in this data collection cycle (a.o. due to resources), this reiteration follows from the talk of last week.

Kind regards,

Christophe Demunter

Christophe Demunter

European Commission

EUROSTAT Unit G-2

Team Tourism Statistics & Collaborative Economy

Office address: BECH Building D4/711 - 5, rue Alphonse Weicker - L-2721 Luxembourg

Tel: +352 4301 36565
Mail: [email protected]
Website: ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tourism

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The views expressed are those of the writer and may not in any circumstances be
considered as stating the official views of the European Commission (Eurostat)

You receive this mail because you are the contact person for your country for tourism statistics (coordinator), or because you are the TSA contact, or because you recently participated in a TSA ESTP course.

If you are not concerned by this e-mail, please forward it to your colleagues or to the institution in charge of compiling Tourism Satellite Accounts for your country.

Dear colleagues,

As agreed at the Working Group meeting on Tourism Statistics in November 2024, we are launching a 6th voluntary transmission of TSA data, following earlier rounds in 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 and 2022.

We are now sending you the template to be used for this voluntary data transmission (see individual country files in the attached zip folder).

The template is unchanged compared with the previous round of three years ago, but we extended the metadata a bit (see below).

In the attached zip file, you will find an Excel file with your 2-digit country name (e.g. CC.xls). The file comprises several worksheets:

• “Overview”:

o   This sheet includes some general instructions – please read these carefully.

o   Please indicate the coverage of the ten TSA tables in your country (using the categories "complete/almost complete coverage", "partial coverage", "not covered") in the table on the left.

o   Please indicate in the matrix on the right, for each TSA table, for a predefined set of data sources whether this source was a "main source" or an "auxiliary source" (when left empty, we will assume it was not used or only an insignificant source).

• “CC” (your country code): this is the core part of the file, where you can report the available TSA indicators for your country.

o   We ask you to use reference year 2022 for column E in this worksheet (or the most recent year available).

o   In case you already have estimates for 2023, you can additionally fill in the available estimates in column F ; but please always complete column E with data for 2022 (or earlier)

o   In columns E and F, please don’t complete the grey highlighted cells: these cells are automatically calculated or copied from other cells ; only the ‘white’ cells have to be filled in.

o   In column C, you will find, for information only, an example of the data for Czech Republic. This may help you to better understand the relation of the different indicators (for instance, their relative order of magnitude)

o   In column D, we pre-printed your previous data (from the 5th exercise) where available at Eurostat.

• Ten worksheets “TSA table n” (if you have time…): these ten worksheet reproduce the full TSA table as included in the TSA:RMF.

On the one hand, these tables give you an overview of the parts of TSA:RMF that are covered by the reporting template (namely all yellow highlighted cells), on the other hand and if possible time-wise, you can tick all the cells in those tables that are available in your country following the instructions below.

o   If an information is available in your country, please put an 'X' in the light-blue coloured cells or in the yellow cells (these yellow cells are the TSA cells that are also included in the template).

o   This is metadata, so you only need to put ‘X’ or leave it empty, we’re not asking to complete the actual data values!

o   Where possible, we included formulae to lower the response burden: e.g. for all totals, we automatically put ‘X’ if the two components are available, or for all cells that are also in the data template we link to the corresponding cell (if the formula spots a value there, it puts ‘X’ automatically).

o   This more elaborated metadata collection was proposed and agreed at the Working Group, but we are aware it can be burdensome (in addition to the reporting in the “Overview” and “CC” sheet). But if you have the information and if you have time to complete these sheets, it will be useful as stock-taking of what TSA data is available in your country, beyond what you enter in the main reporting template. In a way, you can consider these ten sheets as ‘optional’ within an exercise that is already ‘optional’ anyway.

Where deemed relevant, we added some explanatory notes directly in the reporting template. However, the main background reference is of course the TSA Recommended Methodological Framework (TSA:RMF 2008).

For instance, in Figure 3.1 on page 25, you find an overview of the 12 tourism characteristic activities (tourism industries) used in TSA Tables 5, 6 and 7.

We would be grateful if you can return the filled in Excel file for your country by 28 February 2025 to [email protected] (you can also use this address in case you have questions).

As was the case last time, the colleagues from Czech Republic and Austria have offered their kind help with the treatment of the files and with preparing an update of the publication.

The validation work will be done between March and June; we plan to have the publication out in October 2025.

We’re also pleased to inform that we organise an online information session about this 6^th collection of TSA data. Eurostat and the experts will briefly explain the template, and will be available to address any question you may have for them, or that you wish to share with TSA compilers from other countries.

If interested, please block 23 January 2025 from 14h30 to 16h00 in your calendar. The invitation and weblink will follow later.

Thanks in advance for your cooperation! The previous rounds showed that this information is highly valuable as a unique means to assess the economic importance in the EU and in the countries. Your cooperation is highly appreciated by the tourism community!

Please be reminded that this is a voluntary exercise, but nevertheless it would be great to have a good country coverage allowingJ

Have a nice weekend and end-of-the-year break!

Best wishes for 2025 for you and your dear ones.

Eurostat’s tourism statistics team

(+ Zdenek, Pavel & Peter)

Christophe Demunter

European Commission

EUROSTAT Unit G-2

Team Tourism Statistics & Collaborative Economy

Office address: BECH Building D4/711 - 5, rue Alphonse Weicker - L-2721 Luxembourg

Tel: +352 4301 36565
Mail: [email protected]
Website: ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tourism

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The views expressed are those of the writer and may not in any circumstances be
considered as stating the official views of the European Commission (Eurostat)