In accordance with its 2017 Annual Work Plan and within the framework of Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, SESRIC organised the Study Visit on ‘Tourism Statistics’ to Turkey for the benefit of the Committee on Statistics of the Ministry of National Economics of Kazakhstan on 21-23 November 2017. The study visit was hosted by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) of Republic of Turkey.

The study visit was facilitated by Tourism Statistics Group of TurkStat with the participation of two officials from the Committee on Statistics of the Ministry of National Economics of Kazakhstan.

The Study Visit included discussion activities with a focus on the following topics:

Tourism Statistics Methodology

• Definitions and Concepts
• Travel and Tourism
• Types of Tourism
• Tourism Expenditure
• Types of Tourism Expenditure

Outbound Tourism Statistics

• History
• Arriving Citizen Survey
• Sampling Method
• Field Application
• Questionnaire

Inbound Tourism Statistics

• History
• Survey For The Departing Visitors
• Sampling Method
• Field Application
• Questionnaire
• Tourism Income
• Quality Control, Metadata, Data Distribution

Household Domestic Tourism Survey

• Questionnaire

Household Domestic Tourism

• Data Entry Program
• Domestic Tourism Expenditure
• Quality Control, Metadata, Data Distribution

Sign up for an account at OIC-StatCom Forum (http://forum.sesric.org/) to join the group discussion on the Study Visit on ‘Tourism Statistics’ to Turkey available at: http://forum.sesric.org/?p=30282

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