Developing the Tourism Satellite Accounts (TSA): The Philippine Experience

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Developing the Tourism Satellite Accounts (TSA)
The Philippine Experience by Romulo A. Virola,
Regina S. Reyes, Florande S. Polistico, Rolando
Cañizal Milagros Y. Say Presented by Romulo A.
Virola Secretary General National Statistical
Coordination Board Technical Workshop on Tourism
Statistics and Tourism Satellite Accounts 21-22
October 2008, Cebu, Philippines
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Outline of Presentation

1. Introduction
2. The Philippine TSA Significant Developmental
   Features
3. Present Status of the Philippine TSA
4. Some Recent Results
5. Challenges and Future Direction

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I. Introduction
Importance Trends of Tourism Globally
Economic contribution of Tourism can help in

• Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
• Specifically, in poverty reduction

Tourism can contribute towards a better
understanding and appreciation of the
differences and similarities of our various
cultures towards world peace
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I. Introduction
Importance Trends of Tourism Globally
Tourism has benefited from the fast paced
globalization. UNWTO says

• International travelers have been growing for the
  past four years at an average of more than 5
  annually
• In a decade, it grew by 292 million, reaching 903
  million travelers by the end of 2007

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I. Introduction
Importance Trends of Tourism Globally
Tourism has benefited from the fast paced
globalization. UNWTO says

• For the 4-year period from 2003-2007, tourist
  receipts grew at an average of more than 6
  annually
• UNWTO's Tourism 2020 Vision forecasts that
  international arrivals will reach nearly 1.6
  billion by the year 2020

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I. Introduction
Importance Trends of Tourism Locally
Philippine tourism beyond the usual

• The Medium Term Philippine Development Plan
  considers tourism as a key sector for development
  in 2004-2010
• Tourism receipts to GDP ratio grew from 1.9 in
  2003 to 3.4 in 2007
• Tourism receipts to Total Exports ratio more than
  doubled from 3.9 in 2003 to 7.9 in 2007

Source DOT NSCB
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I. Introduction
Importance Trends of Tourism Locally
Philippine tourism beyond the usual

• Tourist arrivals - annual growth of 13 during
  the last 4 years, 10 during the last 5 and 3
  during the last 10, reaching 3.09 million
  tourists by the end of 2007
• Tourists expenditure in US - grew by 41 in
  2006-2007, reaching US4.9 billion in 2007,
  annually by 34 during the last 4 years, by 23
  during the last 5 and by 6 during the last 10
  years.

Source DOT
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I. Introduction
Importance Trends of Tourism Locally
Philippine tourism beyond the usual

• Domestic visitors counted by the DOT from
  accommodation establishments - annual growth of
  14.7 during the last 4 years, 13.5 during the
  last 5 and 10.8 during the last 7, reaching 16.8
  million domestic visitors by the end of 2007

Source DOT
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I. Introduction
Importance Trends of Tourism Locally
Philippine tourism beyond the usual

• Partly because of investments in tourism
  destinations, construction sector grew by
• 23.1 making it a big factor in the record
  economic growth in 2007

Source DOT NSCB
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I. Introduction
Importance of TSA

• Statistics are needed to
• inform program policy decisions
• monitor our progress
• account for the importance of the various sectors
  to society
• Tourism statistics and tourism accounts are
  necessary to measure the size and contribution of
  tourism

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I. Introduction
Importance of TSA

• The TSA as a framework for tourism has been
  developed by international experts and allows
  comparability across countries
• The TSA is aligned with international
  macroeconomic frameworks such as the System of
  National Accounts (SNA) and the Balance of
  Payments (BOP)

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II. The Philippine TSA Significant Developmental
Features

• Philippine Statistical System (PSS)

• decentralized system composed of
• policy-making and coordinating body
• general purpose data generating agency
• training and research institution
• other data producers and users
• academe
• statistical organizations at all administrative
  levels, the personnel therein and the national
  statistical program

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II. The Philippine TSA Significant Developmental
Features

• Philippine Statistical System (PSS)

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II. The Philippine TSA Significant Developmental
Features

• National Statistical Coordination Board

• The highest policy-making and coordinating body
  on statistical matters in the country
• Formulates policies all matters relating to
  government statistical operations
• Promotes and maintains an efficient statistical
  system in the government
• Etc.

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II. The Philippine TSA Significant Developmental
Features
NSCB Statistical Coordination Mechanisms

• The Philippine Statistical Development Program
  (NSDS) 7th version is for 2005-2010
• System of Designated Statistics
• Inter-agency Committees ( 11 IACs, 6 Technical
  Committees, 2 Task Forces 26 Technical Working
  Groups as of Oct. 21, 2008)
• Statistical Budget Review Process

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II. The Philippine TSA Significant Developmental
Features
NSCB Statistical Coordination Mechanisms

• Statistical Survey Review Clearance System
  (includes administrative records systems)
• Statistical Standards Classification Systems
• System of National Accounts
• Statistical Advocacy Mechanisms ( National
  Statistics Month, National Convention on
  Statistics, Hosting of International Conferences,
  etc.)

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II. The Philippine TSA Significant Developmental
Features
NSCB Statistical Coordination Mechanisms

• 1. Philippine Statistical Development Program
  (PSDP)

• prepared every six years and the current PSDP
  covers the period 2005-2010
• serves as a blueprint of priority programs and
  activities to be undertaken during the program
  period to improve the generation of sectoral
  statistics
• translates and addresses the data requirements of
  the Medium Term Philippine Development Plan
• Tourism is the 15th Chapter of the PSDP composed
  of 25 chapters

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II. The Philippine TSA Significant Developmental
Features
NSCB Statistical Coordination Mechanisms

• 1. Philippine Statistical Development Program
  (PSDP)

• In the previous PSDP (1999-2004), Tourism was
  included in the chapter on Trade and Services
• Through the PSDP, activities relevant to the
  compilation of Philippine TSA were pursued which
  include
• formulation of standard concepts and definitions
  on tourism that are consistent with IRTS and TSA
  RMF
• development of Philippine Tourism Statistical
  Classification System NSCB Resolution No. 4
  Series of 2005

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II. The Philippine TSA Significant Developmental
Features
NSCB Statistical Coordination Mechanisms

• 1. Philippine Statistical Development Program
  (PSDP)

• Conduct of activities for wider dissemination of
  tourism statistics

• Development of Philippine Tourism Statistics
  website, DOT NSCB 2007
• Annual publication of Compendium of Philippine
  Tourism Statistics by the DOT

• Generation/compilation of new/emerging statistics
  and indicators

• Conduct of Household Survey of Domestic
  Visitors, DOT NSO 2005-2006

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II. The Philippine TSA Significant Developmental
Features
NSCB Statistical Coordination Mechanisms

• 1. Philippine Statistical Development Program
  (PSDP)

• Statistical development programs on the tourism
  industry that will be pursued under PSDP
  2005-2010 include
• Enhancement of current methodologies and
  collection/processing systems, such as

• Enhancement of PTSA estimates by NSCB, 2005-2010
• Improvement of Arrival/Departure Card by Bureau
  of Immigration, 2005-2010

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II. The Philippine TSA Significant Developmental
Features
NSCB Statistical Coordination Mechanisms

• 1. Philippine Statistical Development Program
  (PSDP)

• Coordination/advocacy activities on tourism
  statistics

• Strengthen the IACTS, 2005-2010
• Development of GIS-based information materials
  on tourism statistics, DOT, 2005-2010

• Statistical capacity building program

• Training of personnel of DOT regional offices
  and LGUs - DOT, SRTC, LGUs and academe, 2005-2010

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II. The Philippine TSA Significant Developmental
Features
NSCB Statistical Coordination Mechanisms

• 2. Inter-agency Committee on Tourism Statistics

• originally created as Inter-Agency Committee on
  the Development of a Satellite Account on Tourism
  (IAC-DSAT) on February 7, 1997 by the NSCB
  Executive Board
• provides direction and addresses concerns on the
  improvement of tourism statistics and tourism
  satellite accounts through a well established
  tourism statistical system

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II. The Philippine TSA Significant Developmental
Features
NSCB Statistical Coordination Mechanisms

• 2. Inter-agency Committee on Tourism Statistics

• serves as venue for discussions on statistical
  issues related to tourism statistics tourism
  accounts
• composed of representatives from government and
  non-government organizations involved in
  production and use of tourism statistics
• NSCB and DOT technical staff serve as the
  Committee Secretariat

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II. The Philippine TSA Significant Developmental
Features
NSCB Statistical Coordination Mechanisms

• 2. Inter-agency Committee on Tourism Statistics

Chair National Statistical Coordination
Board Co-Chair Department of Tourism Members Asi
an Institute of Tourism Bangko Sentral ng
Pilipinas Bureau of Immigration Civil
Aeronautics Board Department of Interior and
Local Govt. National Economic Devt. Authority
National Statistics Office Private
Associations

• Hotel and Restaurant Association of the Phil.
• Board of Airline Representatives
• Philippine Tour Operators Association
• Philippine Travel Agencies Association

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II. The Philippine TSA Significant Developmental
Features
NSCB Statistical Coordination Mechanisms

• 3. Statistical Advocacy Mechanisms

• The 14th National Statistics Month celebration in
  2003 focused on the theme Sustaining Tourisms
  Competitive Edge Through Statistics was hosted
  by the DOT
• Conduct of Tourism Sessions in the National
  Convention on Statistics (NCS)

• DOT has sponsored tourism sessions for the past
  three NCS conducted on 2001, 2004 2007. In
  2007, 3 papers were presented, namely

• Developing the Survey instruments for the HSDV
• Understanding the Visiting Friends/Relatives
  Travel Market
• Sustainability of Tourism Statistics Issues in
  Statistics

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II. The Philippine TSA Significant Developmental
Features
NSCB Statistical Coordination Mechanisms

• Examples of Institutional linkages/collaborative
  efforts

• Collaboration between DOT and NSCB on the
  development of the Compendium of Philippine
  Tourism Statistics and the Philippine TSA
• Review of design and instruments of tourism
  surveys through the Statistical Survey Review and
  Clearance System (SSRCS)

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II. The Philippine TSA Significant Developmental
Features
NSCB Statistical Coordination Mechanisms

• Examples of Institutional linkages/agency
  collaborative efforts

• Collaboration between DOT and NSO on the conduct
  of the Household Survey of Domestic Visitors
  (HSDV)
• Team up between DOT the Bureau of Immigration
  (BI) in the processing of Arrival/Departure (A/D)
  cards

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II. The Philippine TSA Significant Developmental
Features
NSCB Statistical Coordination Mechanisms

• Institutional linkages/agency collaborative
  efforts

• Sharing of statistical information

• Regular release of DOT publications

• Monthly web release of arrivals and hotel
  occupancy data
• Quarterly release of Tourism Report
• Annual release of Compendium of Philippine
  Tourism Statistics starting 2004
• Provision of data to NSCB for the compilation of
  the National Accounts (Exports of services)

• Inclusion of tourism indicators in the NSCB
  publications

• Monthly Economic Indicators (EI), Philippine
  Statistical Yearbook (PSY)

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II. The Philippine TSA Significant Developmental
Features
Other Institutional Mechanisms

• Capacity Building

• basic training on collection, generation,
  compilation and analysis of tourism statistics
  for national and field personnel of DOT as well
  as staff of local government units (LGUs)
  conducted by Statistical Research and Training
  Center (SRTC)

• Training on Basic Tourism Data Gathering and
  Reporting System in the provinces of Bohol and
  Cebu
• Developed and published the TOURISM STATISTICS
  MANUAL for LGUs

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II. The Philippine TSA Significant Developmental
Features
Other Institutional Mechanisms

• Capacity Building

• technical assistance from different international
  organizations, such as

• UNWTO-sponsored Workshop on Indicators of
  Sustainable Development for Tourism Destinations,
  Bohol, Philippines
• Development of Tourism Statistics System for LGUs
  sponsored by the Japan International Cooperation
  Agency (JICA)

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II. The Philippine TSA Significant Developmental
Features
Other Institutional Mechanisms

• Involvement in International efforts

• Actively participated in the workshops and
  forums for the improvement of tourism statistics
  and development of TSA
• Latest participations include

• Expert Group meeting on Tourism Statistics and
  provided comments on the IRTS and TSA RMF
• 39th Session of the UN Statistical Commission

• NSCB and DOT are currently preparing the
  countrys response to the questionnaire sent by
  UNWTO for the publication TSA Data Around the
  World 2009 for submission before the end of
  October 2008

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II. The Philippine TSA Significant Developmental
Features
Data Support for PTSA Compilation

• Visitor Sample Survey (VSS) monthly by DOT

• Arrival/Departure Cards processed monthly by
  DOT BI

• Regional Travelers Report annual data on
  internal tourism from DOT

• Establishment Surveys such as Census of
  Philippine Business and Industry (CPBI) and
  Quarterly Survey of Philippine Business and
  Industry (QSPBI) by NSO

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II. The Philippine TSA Significant Developmental
Features
Data Support for PTSA Compilation

• Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and
  Exhibitions (MICE) Study annually by DOT

• Input-Output Table periodically by NSCB,
  latest are for 1994 2000

• National Accounts of the Philippines quarterly
  by NSCB

• Labor Force Survey quarterly by NSO

• Household Survey of Domestic Visitors (HSDV)-
  jointly byDOT NSO, 2005

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II. The Philippine TSA Significant Developmental
Features
Initiatives towards PTSA developments

• PTSA Milestones

Activity

Period



1988

The NSCB, thru its Grants
-
in
-
Aid statistical development program,
provided funds and technical assistance to DOT in
the conduct of
research study, which aimed to explore
contribution of tourism to the
economy using the input
-
output analysi
s approach.



1996

NSCB, DOT and WTTC collaborated to come up with a
simulated satellite
account on tourism for the Philippines, which
showed that travel and
tourism accounted for 8.7 percent of the GDP in
1997. The estimation
procedure was developed by the
Wharton Econometric Forecasting
Association (WEFA) under the direction of the
WTTC.




NSCB and DOT signed a MOA to support the
development of the PTSA.

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II. The Philippine TSA Significant Developmental
Features
Initiatives towards PTSA developments

• PTSA Milestones

Activity

Period



1997

NSCB created an Inter
-
Agency Committee on the Development of a
Satellite Account
on Tourism (IAC
-
DSAT) that shall oversee the
development of a TSA for the country.



IAC
-
DSAT conceptualized the framework for the PTSA



1998

Participated in the Seventh Meeting of the
Steering Committee, World
Conference on the Measurement of the Economic
Impact of Tourism,
WTO Headquarters, Madrid, Spain



The NSCB created its Development of the Satellite
Account on Tourism
1999


(DSAT) Team
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II. The Philippine TSA Significant Developmental
Features
Initiatives towards PTSA developments

• PTSA Milestones

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II. The Philippine TSA Significant Developmental
Features
Initiatives towards PTSA developments

• PTSA Milestones

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II. The Philippine TSA Significant Developmental
Features
Initiatives towards PTSA developments

• PTSA Milestones

Activity

Period



2003

The Philippines hosted the Second Sub
-
Regional Workshop on Tourism
Statistics and the Elaboration of a Tourism
Satellite Account held in
Manila. The country paper Status of the
Development of the Philippine
Tourism Satellite Account (PTSA) was presented
in that workshop.




The IACDSAT was reconstituted and renamed to
Inter
-
agency Committee
on Tourism Statistics (IAC
-
TS) per NSCB Memorandum Order No. 04
Series of 2003 to expand the functions of the IAC
from Tourism Accounts to .

Tourism Statistics.

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II. The Philippine TSA Significant Developmental
Features
Initiatives towards PTSA developments

• PTSA Milestones

Activity

Period



2005

The NSCB Executive Board approved the NSCB
Resolution No. 4 Series
of 2005 Approving and Adopting the Philippine
Tourism Statist
ical
Classification System (PTSCS). The PTSCS was
based on the following



UNWTO
-
recommended list



1994 Philippine Standard Industrial
Classification (PSIC)



2002 Philippine Central Product Classification
(PCPC)



International Standard Industrial Classifica
tion (ISIC) Rev. 2



2006

The NSCB DSAT Team was reconstituted and renamed
as the Philippine
Tourism Satellite Accounts (PTSA) Team


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II. The Philippine TSA Significant Developmental
Features
Initiatives towards PTSA developments

• PTSA Milestones

Activity

Period



2006

Presented the country paper The 1993
Recommendations on Tourism

Statistics and the Philippine Tourism

Satellite Accounts during the
International Workshop on Tourism Statistics,
UNWTO Headquarters,

Madrid, Spain, 17
-
20 July 2006.



2007

The Philippines participated in the worldwide
consultation for the revision

of the IRTS and the TSA RMF by providing
series of responses to the

questionnaires sent by the UNWTO




Participated in the Expert Group Meeting in
Tourism Statistics,

UN Headquarters, New York, USA

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II. The Philippine TSA Significant Developmental
Features
Initiatives towards PTSA developments

• PTSA Milestones

Activity

Period



2006
-
2008

Updating and refining the PTSA estimation using
the IRTS 2008 and TSA

RMF 2008. Improvements from the previous
estimates include

Establishment of the link of internal tourism
consumption with the

ü

supply of goods and services

Improvement of the coverage of domestic tourism
using the results

ü

of the Household Survey
on Domestic Visitors (HSDV)

ü

Compiling the outbound tourism expenditure (Table
3) previously

not compiled

ü

Availability of estimates for GVATI, TDGVA and
TDGDP

ü

Covered data series 2000 to 2007

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III. Present Status of the PTSA
On-going stage of implementation

• Institution in charge of the compilation

• National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB)

• Institutions that provide data

• Department of Tourism (DOT)
• National Statistics Office (NSO)
• National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB)

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III. Present Status of the PTSA
On-going stage of implementation

• Guidelines Standards followed

• International Recommendations on Tourism
  Statistics (IRTS) 2008

• provides the basic concepts and definitions of
  the different aspects of tourism such as

• travelers that qualify as visitor either tourist
  or overnight visitor, as same day visitor or
  excursionist forms of tourism concept of
  tourism expenditure different classifications
  that can be used in the analysis of tourism

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III. Present Status of the PTSA
On-going stage of implementation

• Guidelines Standards followed

• International Recommendations on Tourism
  Statistics (IRTS) 2008

• used as guiding principles in the collection of
  data
• serves as basis for the revision of existing
  data mechanisms to include necessary indicators
  on specific areas such as accommodation on second
  homes and same-day visits.

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III. Present Status of the PTSA
On-going stage of implementation

• Guidelines Standards followed

• Tourism Satellite Account Recommended
  Methodological Framework (TSA RMF) 2008

• aims to integrate the measurement of tourism as
  an economic phenomenon within the mainstream of
  macroeconomic statistics
• serves to complement the concepts, definitions,
  aggregates, classifications already presented in
  the IRTS 2008
• the framework to guide countries in the further
  development of the system of tourism statistics,
  the main objective being the completion of the TSA

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III. Present Status of the PTSA
On-going stage of implementation

• Guidelines Standards followed

• Tourism Satellite Account Recommended
  Methodological Framework (TSA RMF) 2008

• generally serves as guide in the compilation of
  the PTSA tables
• the sequence and title of the 10 tables were
  also followed

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III. PTSA Present Status
On-going stage of implementation

• Basic Aggregates currently prepared (for release
  January 2009)

Tourism consumption expenditure/consumption

• Inbound tourism expenditure
• - Foreign visitors expenditure
• - Overseas Filipinos expenditure
  (permanently residing abroad)

• Domestic tourism expenditure

• Outbound tourism expenditure

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III. PTSA Present Status
On-going stage of implementation

• Basic Aggregates currently prepared (for release
  January 2009)

Tourism consumption expenditure/consumption

• Internal tourism consumption
• - Internal tourism expenditure
• - expenditures on products such as
  accommodation, food and beverage, transportation
  and other products paid by the organizers on
  behalf of visitors
• - IRTS 2008 recommendations concerning
  imputed consumption on vacation homes are not yet
  covered in the Philippine TSA updates

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III. PTSA Present Status
On-going stage of implementation

• Basic Aggregates currently prepared (for release
  January 2009)

Supply/production of tourism goods and services

• gross value added of tourism industries (GVATI)
• tourism direct gross value added (TDGVA)
• tourism direct gross domestic product (TDGDP)

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III. PTSA Present Status
On-going stage of implementation

• Basic Aggregates currently prepared (for release
  January 2009)

Employment of tourism industries

• estimates include number of persons employed in
  each of the identified tourism-characteristic
  industry
• Limitations in the data did not allow for the
  generation of employment by sex and hours worked
  as recommended by the UNWTO

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III. Present Status of the PTSA
On-going stage of implementation

• Consumption products categories

• The categories used by the PTSA generally
  followed the recommendations from the TSA RMF
  2008
• However, due to data limitations, only the major
  categories were presented. PTSA categories do not
  show the following details

• Accommodation from vacation homes
• No breakdown on Transportation (railways, road,
  water, air, transport rentals)
• No breakdown on Entertainment and Recreation into
  cultural services and sports and recreational
  services

• Miscellaneous Category was added to catch all
  other consumptions not captured in any of the
  specific categories

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III. Present Status of the PTSA
On-going stage of implementation

• Consumption products categories

• PTSA consumption products include

• accommodation services for visitors
• food and beverage serving services
• transport services
• travel agencies and other reservation services
• entertainment and recreation
• shopping of country-specific tourism
  characteristic goods
• miscellaneous

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III. Present Status of the PTSA
On-going stage of implementation

• Historical series currently prepared

• The latest Philippine TSA presents annual
  estimates for the period 2000 to 2007
• The 2000-2007 estimates are however, not linked
  to the 1994 1998 estimates previously compiled

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III. PTSA Present Status
On-going stage of implementation

• TSA related indicators that can be derived

Indicators

Source Table

Share of TDGVA to total GDP (current
Table 6


?
prices)

Share of Domestic tourism to PCE (current
Table 2


?
prices)

Share of Inbound tourism to Total exports
Table 1

?

(current prices)

Share of
Out
bound tourism to Total Imports
Table 3

?

(current prices)

Share of Tourism industry employment to
Table7


?
total employment


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III. Present Status of the PTSA
Short-term Implementation plans

• Activities to be undertaken in the short run

• Review consistency of estimates
• Further review by the IAC on Tourism Statistics
• Presentation to the NSCB Executive Board for
  policy decision
• - next meeting of the Board is
  scheduled on December 3, 2008

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III. Present Status of the PTSA
Short-term Implementation plans

• Activities to be undertaken in the short run

• Preparation for the PTSA publication

• Target date of release January 2009
• Basic documentation

• Printed PTSA publication by NSCB
• Inclusion of PTSA in the Compendium of
  Philippine Tourism Statistics of DOT
• Press release/website release

• Updating the PTSA page on the NSCB website

• Uploading of pertinent information including
  PTSA Technical Notes

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IV. Some Recent Results
A glimpse of PTSA results, 2000 to 2007

• What do we have?

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IV. Some Recent Results
A glimpse of PTSA results, 2000 to 2007

• What do we have?

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IV. Some Recent Results
A glimpse of PTSA results, 2000 to 2007

• What do we have?

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IV. Some Recent Results
A glimpse of PTSA results, 2000 to 2007

• What do we have?

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IV. Some Recent Results
A glimpse of PTSA results, 2000 to 2007

• What do we have?

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IV. Some Recent Results

• Comparison of the Recent PTSA with the previous
  study covering 1994 1998

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IV. Some Recent Results
A glimpse of PTSA results, 2000 to 2007

• Inbound tourism expenditure on the rise!

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IV. Some Recent Results
A glimpse of PTSA results, 2000 to 2007

• Share of inbound tourism expenditure to Exports
  rose by more than 7 in 2007! Growth in
  inbound tourism coupled with decline in exports

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IV. Some Recent Results
A glimpse of PTSA results, 2000 to 2007

• Domestic tourism expenditure posts double digit
  growths !

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IV. Some Recent Results
A glimpse to PTSA results, 2000 to 2007

• Share of Domestic tourism expenditure to PCE
  increasing!

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IV. Some Recent Results
A glimpse of PTSA results, 2000 to 2007

• Domestic tourism expenditure dominated Internal
  tourism expenditure!

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IV. Some Recent Results
A glimpse of PTSA results, 2000 to 2007

• Internal tourism consumption on double digit
  growth from 2004 to 2007

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IV. Some Recent Results
A glimpse of PTSA results, 2000 to 2007

• Miscellaneous, shopping and accommodation are
  the biggest components of Internal tourism
  consumption!

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IV. Some Recent Results
A glimpse of PTSA results, 2000 to 2007

• Significant drop in outbound tourism expenditure
  in 2007! impact of Philippine currency
  appreciation

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IV. Some Recent Results
A glimpse of PTSA results, 2000 to 2007

• On the average, outbound tourism expenditure
  accounted for about 3 of total Imports of the
  country!

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IV. Some Recent Results
A glimpse of PTSA results, 2000 to 2007

• Derived ratios by consumption products

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IV. Some Recent Results
A glimpse of PTSA results, 2000 to 2007

• TDGVA grew steadily during the period 2000 to
  2007!

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IV. Some Recent Results
A glimpse of PTSA results, 2000 to 2007

• For the years 2000 to 2007, the average share of
  TDGVA to GDP is about 6.2 percent!

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IV. Some Recent Results
Other macroeconomic(nonmonetary) indicators

• Employment in tourism industries growing slowly!

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IV. Some Recent Results
A glimpse of PTSA results, 2000 to 2007

• On the average, employment in tourism industries
  was 9.5 of the total employment in the
  Philippines!

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V. Challenges and Future Directions
Data and Data Sources

• Improvements in the Visitor Sample Survey

• continue improving its processing to ensure more
  timely release of data
• expanding its coverage to other Philippine
  international airports newly opened
• to cover arrivals through seaports when volume
  becomes significant
• improvement in sampling methodology to represent
  more diverse respondents in order to represent
  different niche markets

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V. Challenges and Future Directions
Data and Data Sources

• Revision of the Arrival/Departure (A/D) card

• Incorporated in the revised A/D cards are new
  technological methodologies to improve response
  rate and processing
• proposed new A/D cards incorporate matching of
  arrival and departure, which could provide
  reliable estimates on the length of stay of
  travelers
• implement the A/D cards in international sea
  ports

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V. Challenges and Future Directions
Data and Data Sources

• Enhancement of Regional Travelers Report

• Capturing the data from non-DOT-accredited
  establishments
• segregation of same-day visitors from the
  tourists

• Sustain the conduct of the Household Survey on
  Domestic Visitors (HSDV)
• Provision of more disaggregated data in
  establishment surveys

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V. Challenges and Future Directions
Estimation Methodology

• Explicit characterization of expenditures by
  each class of visitor

• separate estimates for same-day visitors and
  tourists

• Expansion of the scope of expenditure data used
  in outbound tourism
• At present, only used the average expenditure
  data of Filipinos in four major country
  destinations, namely USA, Hongkong, Thailand and
  Singapore

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V. Challenges and Future Directions
Estimation Methodology

• Refinements in output indicators for tourism
  industries

• provision of additional samples for
  tourism-characteristic industries

• Improvement in employment data

• to complement Labor Force Survey data by the
  Census of Population

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V. Challenges and Future Directions

• Towards Measurement of Tourism at the
  Sub-National Level

• Local Government Units must step up their own
  collection of tourism statistics for local
  planning
• Support needed for the DOTs program on capacity
  building of local government units

• Monitoring Progress

• Tourism Statistics must be analysed to quantify
  the contribution of tourism to national as well
  as LGU progress
• Actual Policy Uses of Tourism Statistics/Tourism
  Accounts must be demonstrated

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V. Challenges and Future Directions

• Tourism and Sustainability

• The PTSA must be useful as a tool to demonstrate
  the sustainability of tourism as a key
  contributor to development

• Capacity Building

• there is a need to enhance the technical
  capability of the compilers of the PTSA in order
  to ensure the accuracy and sustainability of
  estimates
• Capacity building is also necessary for the users
  of the TSA to improve appreciation and meaningful
  utilization of information

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V. Challenges and Future Directions

• Resources constraints (manpower and financial)

• Advocate for better appreciation by government on
  the need to provide budget for statistical
  activities
• Allow statistical offices to hire and increase
  number of statistical positions in government
  (including those in line ministries like the DOT)
• Invest in statistics, invest in statistical
  offices, invest in statisticians!

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