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Addressing Challenges in Setting up TSAs - Building Capacity in Caribbean Tourism

This article discusses the major challenges faced in setting up Tourism Satellite Accounts (TSAs) in the Caribbean tourism industry. It highlights the need for relevant capacity building, adequate finance and budgets, coordination of statistical systems, and improving data quality. The article also addresses administrative and managerial issues faced by National Statistical Offices (NSOs), National Tourism Organizations (NTOs), and the role of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) in facilitating cooperation and information sharing.

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Addressing Challenges in Setting up TSAs - Building Capacity in Caribbean Tourism

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  1. TOURISM SATELLITE ACCOUNTING GRAND BARBADOS BEACH RESORTAddressing the challenges in setting up TSAsWinfield Griffith, Caribbean Tourism Organization, February, 2007

  2. MAJOR CHALLENCES • Need for relevant capacity building • Traditionally relatively low priority given by administrators to statistics and TSAs • Need for adequate finance and budgets • Need for coordination and congruence (harmonising) of (Tourism) statistical systems region-wide • Raising data quality and content

  3. ADMIN. & MANAGERIAL ISSUES • Ministry of finance determines detail budget line items of most NSOs and Ministries of Tourism. • arbitrary cuts to proposed budgets very common • bureaucratic strictures prevail • Tourist Boards and Tourism Authorities given subvention. • allowed to manage this autonomously • Determine priorities subject to budget constraints

  4. ADMIN. & MANAGERIAL ISSUES (Con’t) • NSOs • organized hierarchically for effective conduct on statistical exercises • Hamstrung by inability to extend operations • Specialised training for staff slow and falling back • Inadequate budgets

  5. ADMIN. & MANAGERIAL ISSUES (Con’t) • NTOs • with a few exceptions, not organized for statistics and research • research staffing where it exists lacks structure • Specialised training for staff slow • Ample budgets

  6. STRATEGIC ALLIANCES • Closer INTEGRATION AND SHARING between NSOs & NTOs. • NTOs relatively better financial endowment • NSOs relatively greater technical endowment • Closer COOPERATION AND INFORMATION SHARING with national agencies and associations (e.g. HTAs, Imm. Offices, etc) • inviting representatives to key planning meeting and other activities • co-opting representatives on working committees

  7. STRATEGIC ALLIANCES (Cont’d) • Closer COOPERATION AND INFORMATION SHARING with regional agencies and organisations (e.g. ECCB,CARICOM, CDB, etc) • inviting representatives to key planning meetings and other activities • co-opting representatives on working committees • Utilizing and technical and other assistance available

  8. STRATEGIC ALLIANCES (Cont’d) • Closer COOPERATION AND INFORMATION SHARING with international agencies and organisations (e.g. WTO,UNSO, CARTAC, etc) • inviting representatives to key planning meetings and other activities • co-opting representatives on working committees • Utilizing technical expertise and funding

  9. CTOs ROLE • COOPERATING AND INFORMATION SHARING with wider Caribbean • coordinating to key region-wide planning meetings and other activities • Interacting with all relevant organizations to ensure • Securing and providing technical resources wherever possible

  10. Thank you!

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