Abstract:

Tourism, identified by its industries and subsequently by the services it offers, is basically an economic phenomenon, apart from the social or cultural criteria through which it can also be analysed. Like any other economic phenomenon, different measurement systems have been associated with it, starting with indicators specific to tourism activities or barometers, up to the present day, where the specific scoreboard is the Tourism Satellite Account (TSA).

In addition to the data that were specific to the traditional tourism indicator systems, the TSA also provides information that links to other sectors of the economy, and thus the possibility to compare the performance of the tourism sector with other sectors of the national economy. The TSA provides in essence information for analysing the balance between tourism supply and demand, both in terms of the direct effect on the tourism sector but also in terms of data describing the indirect effect on other industries.