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Tähelepanu!

Dear Colleague,

The World Tourism Organization (UN Tourism) is mandated by the United Nations to collect, analyse, publish, standardize and improve the statistics of tourism, and to promote the integration of these statistics within the sphere of the United Nations system. By reporting your country’s statistics, you contribute to the UN Tourism Statistics Database, a global resource for measuring progress and supporting informed decision-making in tourism.

This year’s questionnaire introduces a new format, developed through a comprehensive review launched last year. It consolidates and streamlines previous data collection files, including the Compendium (CP), Yearbook (YB), Yearbook complement (YBC) and SDG indicators reporting files. For this reason, we are including in copy in this questionnaire dispatch the statistical focal points for the four data collection exercises mentioned above.

We kindly invite you to complete the attached questionnaire with data for the years 2023 and 2024. This new integrated format is designed to enhance consistency across the different indicators. You may notice in the prefilled values that some series were previously recorded using incorrect units (e.g., millions instead of thousands, visitors instead of tourists, etc.). Please review and update any prefilled values as needed, including those for previous years 2020-2022.

A dedicated section for your feedback is provided at the end of the questionnaire. We encourage you to share any comments or questions that may arise while completing it. If you notice any edits needed in the list of recipients of this email, kindly also indicate them in this section.

If you wish to update any older values for years not included in the questionnaire, you are welcome to send them in a separate document. Also, if you require more time to adapt to the new format and would prefer to use the previous reporting files this year, please let us know by email and we will provide them.

Please return this questionnaire to [email protected] at your earliest convenience, no later than: 31 August 2025.

The data received will be processed and disseminated through UN Tourism’s usual channels, including the Statistics Database website: https://www.unwto.org/tourism-statistics/tourism-statistics-database and the eLibrary: https://www.e-unwto.org/. The SDG indicators will also be submitted to the SDG Global Database: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/dataportal.

Please acknowledge receipt of the attached questionnaire and kindly confirm the email address of the person who will coordinate its completion.

Thank you for your continued collaboration and commitment to the improvement of tourism statistics.

Kind regards,

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