Tourism Environmental Satellite Accounts
Researchers: Calvin Jones (WERU), Dr Max Munday and Dr Annette Roberts
Background
The TSA is intended to measure economic activity consequent on tourism in a way which enables comparison with other economic activities taking place in the same region or nation. Hence, tourism must be contextualised and visible within the accounting frameworks of the area in question, as indeed will be other industries. A standard TSA includes a set of tables highlighting inbound and outbound tourism consumption, tourism dependent employment, tourism capital expenditure, and common (public sector) expenditure on tourism. In producing an environmental TSA the objective is to use information derived from environmental satellite accounts to investigate the environmental externalities of tourism consumption.
