Statisticians say that while travel and tourism were strongly related, they did not totally overlap.
They were deliberating at a Regional Workshop on Travel and International Tourism Consumption in Dominica that established a number of recommendations for member states to employ to ensure that accurate statistics are compiled in view of their impact on all aspects of society.
“Travel is not equivalent to Tourism,” was the key message impressed upon participants at the four-day workshop hosted by the Central Statistics Office in Roseau, Dominica, from May 14-17, the Caricom Secretariat said in a press release.
“Conceptually, travel – a balance of payments transaction measured by countries as an internationally traded service – refers to the expenditure of travellers in the economy visited,” the release said,