In accordance with its 2015 Annual Work Plan, SESRIC organised the training course on ‘Tourism Statistics’ at the Department of Statistics (DoS) of Malaysia on 26-28 October 2015, within the framework of the Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme. The course was conducted by Mr. Akhmad Tantowi, Expert at BPS-Statistics Indonesia with participation of relevant officials of DoS.

The course also included discussion activities and covered the following topics:

• Overview of the International Recommendations on Tourism Statistics 2008  (IRTS 2008)
• Measurement and economic analysis of tourism
• An overview of the new TSA international standards
• Demand side data: Domestic tourism, Outbound tourism & Inbound tourism
• Supply side data: Industry data
• Tables, Accounts and Aggregates
• A Comparative Study on the Compilation Methods of TSA for some countries
• Overview of Input Output Table
• Input Output Table and TSA: Experiences from the Indonesian TSA
• Challenges: Contribution of tourism sector at subnational level, Big data

Sign up for an account at OIC-StatCom Forum (http://forum.sesric.org/) to join the group discussion on the training course on 'Tourism Statistics ' in Malaysia available at: http://forum.sesric.org/?p=43

For other activities of the Statistics and Information Department within the Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, please visit: http://www.oicstatcom.org/statcab.php