B. List of Tourism Characteristic Activities (TSA/TCA)
Tourism Characteristic Activities can be identified as those productive activities which principal output is characteristic of tourism. As the set of these activities does not comprise a single industry conforming to SNA93 definition, 1 TSA defines tourism industries as all establishments whose principal productive activity is a tourism characteristic activity.
The following table reveals the similarity between the 12 items of the provisional list used in the TSA tables (TSA/TCA) and their corresponding codes in ISIC and SICTA93. 2
Activities description |
ISIC – Rev.3 |
SICTA93 |
1 – Hotels and similar |
5510 |
5510 |
2 – Second home ownership (imputed) |
Part of 7010 |
Part of 7010 |
3 – Restaurants and similar |
5520 |
5520 |
4 – Railway passenger transport services |
Part of 6010 |
6010-1, 6010-2 |
5 – Road passenger transport services |
Part of (6021 and 6022) |
6021-1, 6021-2, 6021-3 6022-1, 6022-2, 6022-3, 6022-4 |
6 – Water passenger transport services |
Part of (6110 and 6120) |
6110-1, 6110-2 Part of 6110, 6120-1, 6120-2, 6120-3, Part of 6120 |
7 – Air passenger transport services |
Part of (6210 and 6220) |
6210-1 6220-1, 6220-2 |
8 – Transport supporting services |
Part of 6303 |
6303-1, 6303-2, 6303-3 |
9 – Transport equipment rental |
Part of (7111, 7112 and 7113) |
7111-1, 7111-2, 7111-3 Part of 7112, 7113-1 |
10 – Travel agencies and similar |
6304 |
6304 |
11 – Cultural services |
9232 9233 |
9232-1, 9232-2 9233-1, 9233-2 |
12 – Sporting and other recreational services |
Part of 9214 Part of 9241 Part of 9219 Part of 9249 |
Part of 9214 Part of 9241 9219-1 Part of 9249 |
1 SNA93 defines (¶15.13) an industry as “a group of establishments engaged in the same kind of productive activities”
2 I.S.I.C.: International Standard Industrial Classification of all economic activities, United Nations as Series M, No. 4, Rev 3, New York, 1990. SICTA: Standard International Classification of Tourism Activities – approved as provisional in 1993 by the UN Statistical Commission in its 27th session – developed by the World Tourism Organization (WTO).
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