Within the framework of its Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, SESRIC organised a Training Course on 'Sustainable Tourism Indicators' through an online video conferencing platform with the attendance of 49 participants from the National Statistical Offices (NSOs) of 20 OIC countries on 12-14 September 2022.

Mr. Rifa Rufiadi, Senior Statistician at the Directorate of Statistics of Finance, Information Technology, and Tourism, and Ms. Nur Indah Kristiani, Senior Statistician for National Accounts at the Directorate of Production Accounts of the BPS-Statistics Indonesia, jointly conducted the course and covered the following topics:

• Demand Perspective
  • Inbound Tourism Statistics
  • Outbound Tourism Statistics
  • Domestic Tourism Statistics
• Supply Perspective
  • Maintain Frame in Statistical Business Registers
  • Tourism Industry Survey
• Overview of Tourism Satellite Accounts
• Compilation of Tourism Supply and Tourism Demand

The presentations of the training course are available at this link.

The SESRIC StatCaB Programme was initiated in early 2007. It is the flagship capacity development programme of SESRIC. Within the framework of StatCaB Programme, the Centre collects information from the NSOs of OIC member countries through the biennial StatCaB Questionnaire, assesses their statistical training needs and capacities, matches these needs and capacities, and organizes statistical capacity development activities between the beneficiary and provider countries.

For more information on SESRIC Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, please visit: http://www.oicstatcom.org/statcab.php