Measuring Sustainable Tourism

Sustainable Development and Circular Economy

Papeete, French Polynesia

20-21 November 2017

Scope MST statistical framework

First: mostly economic‐environmental, some social (employment). Why?

Tourism measurement has a particularly significant gap in relation to the environment, and yet so much policy interest (degradation/conservation)
Relatively more progress on economic‐ environmental integration
These integrated frameworks are extendable to measurement at multiple scales, very important in tourism

e.g. UNESCO’s work on Culture Satellite Accounts
Social/cultural indicators can be considered, but it is acknowledged these will not yet be sourced from an integrated framework