The Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) is a distinctive method of measuring the direct economic contributions of tourism demand to a national economy. Its unique approach derives from employing the principles and structure of the internationally recognized System of National Accounts (SNA) to measuring the direct economic impact of tourism. The SNA is the standard set of recommendations on how to compile measures of economic activity, such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP), in accordance with strict accounting conventions based on economic principles (SNA 2008: 1).
The TSA comprises a set of interrelated tables that show the size and distribution of the different forms of tourism expenditure and its augmented cousin Tourism Consumption, in a country, and the direct contributions to GDP, employment, and other macroeconomic measures of a national economy that result (TSA:RMF 2008: 13). It is based on the system of tourism statisticsfollowing standard concepts, definitions, classifications,...
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Frechtling, D.C. (2016). Tourism Satellite Account. In: Jafari, J., Xiao, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Tourism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01384-8_177
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