The papers for the Forum are elaborate on the core themes mentioned in Annex 1 via two formats: “Research” or “Experience/Application”.

DAY 1 – Wednesday, 19 November 2008

Session 1

Chairman:  Franco Ianniello, European Commission, DG ENTR
Moderator:  Béatrice Lévy, Tourism Directorate, France

CHANGES IN TOURISM BEHAVIOUR AND DEMAND

• Staying at home : an investigation of Irish domestic tourism and implications for official statistics
  Steve MacFeely (Tourism and Travel CSO, Ireland)
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• Business trends of low cost carriers in Spain since 2000
  Maria Elena Sedano Santamaria (Instituto de Estudios Turísticos, Spain)
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• Generations come closer and closer
  Laurence Dauphin (Insee, France) and Frederic Tardieu (Tourism Directorate, France)
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• Italian households on travel : who are they? Where, when and how do they travel ?
  Barbara Dattilo (Italian National Statistical Institute, Italy)
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Session 2

Chairman:  Alain Dupeyras, OECD
Moderator:  Raj Nath Pandey, Ministry of Tourism, India

THE BEHAVIOUR AND PERFORMANCE OF ENTERPRISES IN THE TOURISM SECTOR

• How to define business models for SMEs - The case of hotels
  Mara Manente (Ciset, Italy)
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• Employment in tourism industries in Argentina
  Miguel Oliva (Secretaria de Turismo de la Nacion, Argentina)
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• Growth accounting for tourism industries
  Egon Smeral (Austrian Institute of Economic Research, Austria)
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• Performance of sectors of the tourism economy
  Xavier Niel (Insee, France)
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• Implementing the stock exchange methods and techniques on the French tour operator brochures to forecast the markets
  Joël Thibault and David Faveur (Perinfo-Gestour, France)
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DAY 2 – Thursday, 20 November 2008

IMF/UN WTO Collaboration between the International Monetary Fund and the World Tourism Organization on improving the quality of tourism data
Thomas F. Alexander, IMF
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Session 3

Chairman:  Christophe Demunter, European Commission, Eurostat
Moderator:  Pavel Vančura, Statistical Office, Czech Republic

A. GENERAL ISSUES OF TOURISM STATISTICS METHODOLOGY

• Memory effect in the Spanish domestic and outbound tourism survey (Familitur)
  Teresa Guardia and Isabel Perez Varela (Instituto de Estudios Turísticos, Spain)
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• The challenging process of measuring tourism segments in Malta: an integration of official tourism statistics with visitor and trade research
  Tania Sultana and Claire Briffa Said (Malta Tourism Authority, Malta)
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• Generalized weight share method applied to tourism survey: an alternative to border surveys ?
  Anne Coutière (Observatoire du Tourisme de Bretagne) and Jean-Claude Deville (Insee, France)
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• Presentation complementary : Approaching the measurement of tourism in Romania from demand side – experiences and challenges
  Ms. Liana Icob and Mr. Cristi Frenţ
  

B. SELECTED MEASUREMENT ISSUES: SAME-DAY VISITS

• Estimating the domestic same-day visits in Italy through different sources
  Mascia Di Torrice (Istituto Nazionale di Statistica, Italy)
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• Methodological issues concerning the compilation of same day trips in Austria
  Johanna Ostertag (Statistics Austria)
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C. SELECTED MEASUREMENT ISSUES: TOURIST EXPENDITURE

• Inbound tourism survey – Czech experience on collecting and adjusting of data and final results
  Zdenek Lejsek (Czech Statistical Office, Czech Republic)
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• An examination of Irish outbound tourism expenditure
  Sheona Gilsenan (Tourism and Travel CSO, Ireland)
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Session 4

Chairman: Michel Barge, Tourism Directorate, France
Moderator: Charles Morissette, StatCan, Canada

NEW APPROACHES TO DATA COLLECTION

• Estimating foreign visitors flows from motorways toll management system
  Michel Houée (Odit France, France)
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  Presentation 2
  
  
• Uncovering the presence and movements of tourist from user-generated content
  Fabien Girardin (MIT, USA)
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• Experience of national statistic institute collecting data using XML files
  Maria Velasco (Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Spain)
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• Automatical data collection in accommodation statistics
  Ville Vertanen (Statistics Finland, Finland)
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• How to utilise statistics for speedy tourism receipts estimates, to perform seasonality analysis and input for balance of payments
  Christian Brandt (Visit Denmark, Denmark)
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DAY 3 – Friday, 21 November 2008


Session 5

Chairman: Antonio Massieu, UN WTO
Moderator: Peter Laimer, Statistik Österreich, Austria

ADVANCED USAGE OF TOURISM STATISTICS

A. MARITIME DIMENSION

• Tourism development in North Sea region – Analysing official tourism statistics in the context of the Interreg IIIB project ‘ToLearn’
  Ulf Sonntag (Institut für Tourismus und Baderforschung in Nordeuropa, Germany)
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• The significance of coastal tourism in maritime
  Régis Kalaydjian (IFREMER, France)
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B. ENVIRONMENTAL DIMENSION

• Using national tourism demand side surveys to assess greenhouse gas emissions from long distance passenger transport
  Ghislain Dubois (TEC, France)
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• Linking the Canadian Tourism Satellite Account and the Canadian System of Environmental and Resource Accounts to measure the environmental impact of tourism in Canada: an exploratory study for two pilot industries
  Charles Morissette (StatCan, Canada)
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C. EXOGENEOUS EVENTS AFFECTING TOURISM

• Rise and Fall of Croatian tourism and the effects of the war of the 90es
  Jasna Perko and Marianne Iđaković (Central Bureau of Statistics, Croatia)
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• The measurement of the economic impact and damage to Oaxaca City tourism economy, after the socio-political movement in 2006
  Ricardo Rivera Rosas (Universidad Anáhuac México Sur/Facultad de Negocios Mexico, Mexico)
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• The measurement of the economic impact and damage to Acapulco tourism economy, after the highway maintenance disaster in 2006-2007
  Ricardo Rivera Rosas (Universidad Anáhuac México Sur/Facultad de Negocios Mexico, Mexico)
  
  

D. TOURISM SATELLITE ACCOUNTS

• Increasing the Use of Tourism Satellite Account Data for Business and Policy
  Alain Dupeyras (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD)
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• The different versions of the Portuguese TSA: definitive, provisional, preliminary and fast estimates
   Vanda Dores (Instituto Nacional de Estatística, Portugal)
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• Tourism Satellite Account as a tool for economic policy: towards short-term indicators in a TS framework
  Agustín Cañada (Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Spain)
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