Jumayev Akbar Makhmudovich,
PhD, Associate Professor of the Department of “Economic Statistics” Tashkent State University of Economics, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. E-mail: akbar.jumayev@tsue.uz
ORCID 0000-0001-8935-032X
JEL classification: Z3 H10
Abstract: Tourism has become one of the most rapidly developing and competitive sectors in the global economy. At the international level, the number of tourists has reached 1.8 billion people. Tourism revenues have attained $1.7 trillion, accounting for 7% of global exports and 29% of service exports. In global exports, tourism revenues rank third after the chemical industry and fuel and energy exports. Tourism occupies a leading position in the key sectors of world economies. As a result, the innovative development of tourism in economic sectors of most countries worldwide remains one of the most important tasks today.
In various countries around the world, extensive scientific and practical research is being conducted on increasing tourism potential, offering new services, creating new tourism brands, radically enhancing the competitiveness of the tourism sector, performing statistical research of the tourism industry, and statistically assessing the innovative development of tourism. Research has not sufficiently addressed the issues of statistical assessment of tourism. This makes it relevant to further expand the geography of tourism in studies, increase its share in national economies, particularly in the gross domestic product, and transform tourism into one of the profitable sectors.
In Uzbekistan, great attention is being paid to developing tourism, assessing its role in the economy, and maintaining tourism statistics based on international organizations and standards. It has been specifically emphasized that “it is necessary to improve the maintenance of statistics in the field of tourism based on the World Tourism Organization, including international experience and standards.” This sets forth tasks such as increasing tourist flows and expanding the export of tourism services, raising employment levels by creating new jobs in the industry, and most importantly, organizing tourism statistics in accordance with international standards and developing a methodology for the statistical assessment of tourism.
Keywords: tourism revenues, tourism consumption, tourism satellite account, tourism statistics, forecasting methods