SECTION A
Question 5
(a) What is tourism statistics?
(b) Name any two categories of tourism statistics.
Candidates’ overall performance was very poor. The question was unpopular. Most of the candidates exhibited a poor knowledge of tourism statistics. This made them to lose most of the marks allotted for the question. They were expected to respond to the question in the following manner:
- Meaning of tourism statistic:
It is the collection and compilation of information about tourist activities in terms of their inflow, outflow, expenditure pattern, demographic/profile and products available to them.
- Categories of tourism statistics:
- Tourism inflow statistics
- Tourism outflow statistics
- Expenditure pattern statistics
- Tourism profile/demographic statistics
- Tourism employment statistics
- Accommodation statistics
- Tourist centre features