It shows the supply of goods and services both by domestic industries and from imports. It also shows the use of those goods and services in the economy bydomestic industries and final consumers, as well as in exports. Tourism is essentially a demand based concept. The supply and use framework makes it possible to also examine the supply side of tourism within the context of the production and demandfunctions of the whole economy, and thus provides valuable information on the contribution of tourism in Australia. This document was released in March 2000 as a joint publication by an Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Tourism Statistics.
Tourism comprises the activities of visitors traveling for leisure, business and other purposes.
Usual environment is made up of a number of areas in which persons undertake regular activities such as their residence, place of work, place of study and other places frequently visited. The usual environment criteria have two dimensions. Consistent with the definition of visitors, tourism consumption includes expenditure by business visitors including consumption before or after the trip if the expenditures are related to the trip, such as the purchase of luggage or film processing. However, tourism consumption only includes transactions between a visitor and the business with whom the visitor has direct contact. Tourism consumption also includes an imputation for the value of services visitors directly consume from non-market production, e.g., museums and libraries, even though these may be free or charged at a price which is less than the full cost of production.