Tourism Statistics: Macroeconomic Indicators
Tourism Direct Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Tourism GDP – SDG Indicator 8.9.1
Tourism Direct GDP refers to the economic contribution of tourism.
Based on additional data collected from several international sources, a number of macroeconomic indicators are compiled:
| Macroeconomic Indicator | Data Download |
| Gross travel propensity | |
| Inbound tourists over population | |
| Outbound tourism expenditure over GDP | |
| Tourism balance (inbound minus outbound tourism expenditure) over GDP | |
| Tourism openness (inbound plus outbound tourism expenditure) over GDP | |
| Tourism coverage (inbound over outbound tourism expenditure) | |
| Inbound tourism expenditure over exports of goods | |
| Inbound tourism expenditure over exports of services | |
| Inbound tourism expenditure over exports of goods and services | |
| Inbound tourism expenditure over current account credits | |
| Outbound tourism expenditure over imports of goods | |
| Outbound tourism expenditure over imports of services | |
| Outbound tourism expenditure over imports of goods and services | |
| Outbound tourism expenditure over current account debits | |
| Outbound tourism expenditure over GDP |
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System of Tourism Statistics is embedded in the National Statistical System, providing of reliable, consistent and appropriate statistical information on the socio-economic aspects related to tourism, integrated within the economic and social statistics related to other fields
UN Tourism’s Statistics, Standards and Data Department has coordinated important developments relating to the conceptualization of tourism and its measurement, progressively building consensus amongst the international statistical community
The United Nations recognizes UN Tourism as the appropriate organization to collect, to analyze, to publish, to standardize and to improve the statistics of tourism, and to promote the integration of these statistics within the sphere of the United Nations system