UN Tourism and WTCF advance data-driven strategy to metropolis tourism

The report assesses into the present scenario and challenges of tourism information on the metropolis stage. The evaluation will assist advance the creation of worldwide database of city tourism, enabling higher understanding and benchmarking of its measurement and worth, each globally and by area.

Extra and higher information wanted

The brand new report offers an outline of the present scenario of tourism information assortment and reporting in 22 locations in Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and the Center East. The research:

• Identifies current indicators and related information, highlighting the efforts taken to pave the trail in the direction of a creation of a international city tourism database.
• Addresses the significance of measuring impacts past the financial elements and including the socio-cultural and environmental dimensions of metropolis tourism.
• Supplies an outline of the potential use of huge information for measuring city tourism, together with the primary challenges, with a view to enhancing key components of a sensible vacation spot together with know-how and governance.

The report was launched in the course of the 2024 version of the main international journey and tourism commerce truthful, ITB Berlin

In direction of a worldwide city tourism database

UN Tourism, with the assist of the the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the Worldwide Labour Group (ILO) and different events, is main the event of a Statistical Framework for Measuring the Sustainability of Tourism (SF-MST). It will develop a typical strategy to constructing harmonized information on the nationwide and subnational stage to assist the evaluation of tourism exercise and its sustainability in any respect scales.

So far, the UN Tourism Worldwide Community of Sustainable Tourism Observatories has performed a vital position in serving to locations in its endeavours in the direction of monitoring and evaluating the financial, environmental and social impacts of tourism fostering sustainable tourism practices regionally and globally.