Tourism
plays a key role in the economic development of Indonesia. Last year,
the contribution of the tourism industry to the GDP was more than 3 per
cent and the number of visitors to the country is also continuously
growing, around 7 million foreign visitors in 2010 and more than 122
million domestic tourists in 2010.
JAKARTA (ILO News): Tourism plays a key role in the economic
development of Indonesia. Last year, the contribution of the tourism
industry to the GDP was more than 3 per cent and the number of visitors
to the country is also continuously growing, around 7 million foreign
visitors in 2010 and more than 122 million domestic tourists in 2010.
In order to gain an understanding of the exact nature and scope of
the tourism industries, tourist behaviour and consumption patterns, it
is necessary to have in place an accurate, efficient and timely method
of compilation and assessment of tourism statistics. Tourism offers a
wide variety of types of occupation, from low-skilled, low-value-added
to very high-skilled and very high-value-added. The tourism industries
also attract top level managers specialised in hotel, catering and
tourism-characteristic activities.
However, the employment in the tourism industries, in general, and
the economic value of tourism in terms of employment, as a source of
productive labour in particular, remain inadequately measured and
insufficiently studied.
Taking into consideration the notable achievements of Indonesia in
the development of national tourism statistics and production of data on
employment in the tourism industries within the Tourism Satellite
Account (TSA) framework at different administrative levels, Indonesia
had been selected as a pilot country for the Joint ILO/UNWTO project on
measurement of employment and decent work in the tourism industry since
last year. The project aimed to carry out an in-depth study on possible
ways of applying the latest international recommendations in the field
of tourism statistics to produce new sets of data on employment in the
tourism industries beyond the TSA.
To better measure the employment in the tourism industry, the International Labour Organization (ILO), in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the National Statistic Agency, conducted a two-day national workshop from 24 – 25 May 2011. The workshop aimed to disseminate the result of the study and to formulate possible next steps in order to improve quality of the current data collection and possible collection of new data on employment.
To better measure the employment in the tourism industry, the International Labour Organization (ILO), in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the National Statistic Agency, conducted a two-day national workshop from 24 – 25 May 2011. The workshop aimed to disseminate the result of the study and to formulate possible next steps in order to improve quality of the current data collection and possible collection of new data on employment.
“Tourism statistics play a key role in determining policy and
planning through the determination of preferred products, marketing and
promotion through the identification of source markets and so forth.
Notably, tourism plays a crucial role in the creation of employment,”
said Peter van Rooij, Country Director of the ILO in Indonesia.
The workshop discussed the challenges of moving from the traditional
approach based on the economic side of employment (through the supplied
and consumed tourism products) to its human or individual significance,
i.e., to collect data not only on the number of full-equivalent jobs but
also on the number of persons employed in tourism-characteristic jobs,
the working conditions of persons engaged in tourism-characteristic
activities (working hours, wages and salaries, education level) as well
as their employment status in terms of whether they are salaried or
self-employed workers.
The workshop identified key problems and challenges concerning the
methodology and quality of data. It concluded, among others, that
stronger coordination between the national and provincial level is
necessary in setting the standard procedures of data collection. The
workshop also highlighted the need for sensitizing the key stakeholders
on the importance of collecting the right data as an effort to have
better understanding on human significance in the tourism industry.
source : http://www.ilo.org/jakarta/info/public/pr/WCMS_157692/lang--en/index.htm
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