Department for Culture Media and Sport
tourism statistics review
We published the National Statistics review of tourism statistics on 28 June 2004, as well as an implementation plan in response to the review on 23 December 2004.
The review is also published on the National Statistics quality reviews website.
Background
This review of tourism statistics followed the identification of tourism data as a priority at meetings between Ministers and the tourism industry at Hartwell House.
Outline of process
The review was conducted and written up by an independent consultant. National Statistics guidelines and requirements for consultations and reviews were followed.
The project's steering group comprised representatives from industry, tourist boards, tourism organisations, and other government departments including the devolved administrations.
The consultation process took place throughout summer 2003 and included interviews with a cross-section of key users; 35 people in total. With publicity from industry organisations, 60 replies were received in response to the open invitation to contribute via the questionnaire which was available on this web page.
The outcome is a thorough and challenging report which makes recommendations across the wide areas of statistics that are pertinent to tourism.
Progress and next steps
The report was submitted to the National Statistician for approval in March 2004, as is required in National Statistics reviews. The report has now been approved by the National Statistician. .
We then led work on the production of an implementation plan, with ownership and buy-in from all organisations which produce tourism-related statistics. Given the number of organisations this involved, six months were allowed for completion.
The implementation plan, as well as minutes of the meetings held in July and September 2004, can be downloaded from National Statistics review of tourism statistics.
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