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Satellite Accounts
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Re-aggregation of supply and demand
for products cutting across industries
Conceptualized in 1993 SNA
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Known as Satellite Accounts
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Applicable to activities such as:
 environment
 high technology
 tourism
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Tourism Satellite Accounts (TSA)
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GDP concepts applied to tourism
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Measures of Tourism Supply and Demand
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Central concept of Visitors
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Varied nature of Tourism demand
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Major element of Mode 2 services
transactions
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Visitors
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TSA measures supply and demand of
Visitors
Visitors may be resident or non-resident
Visitors: people outside their usual
environment
Concepts of Domestic & International
Tourism
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Tourism demand
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Consists principally of
 Transportation
 Accommodation
 Food and beverages
 Other expenditures
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National practices
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For some countries, domestic and
international tourism both important
For other countries, domestic tourism
somewhat modest
If domestic tourism modest, emphasis may be
given to international tourism
In these cases, TSA elements principally BOP
travel and passenger transportation
But some differences between TSA and BOP
concepts
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TSA vs. BOP
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TSA includes passenger transportation
as well as travel
Unlike BOP, TSA excludes students and
medical patients outside their country
for 1 year or more
TSA excludes expenditures in a country
of non-resident seasonal and border
workers
TSA excludes expenditures by all
migrants and refugees
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