Tourism Paper 2 WASSCE (SC), 2022

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