Assistance to Tourism: Exploratory Estimates
Commission Research Paper
Assistance to Tourism: Exploratory Estimates, was released on 8 April 2005. Drawing on a new collection of data on travel and tourism activity in Australia, including the Tourism Satellite Account developed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and other official data, the Commission has attempted in this study to provide assistance estimates for tourism on a comparable basis to other industries. The estimates are called ‘exploratory’, because they have required some judgements and analytical innovations to overcome the conceptual and measurement difficulties entailed. Also see:
CONTENTS
Preliminaries
Cover, Copyright, Foreword, Acknowledgments, Contents, Abbreviations, Overview
1 Introduction
2 The Australian tourism industry
2.1 What are tourists and tourism?
2.2 What is the tourism ‘industry’?
2.3 Estimating the output of the Australian tourism industry
2.4 Summing-up
3 Identifying and measuring assistance to tourism: methodological issues
3.1 What government actions constitute assistance
3.2 Delineating assistance to tourism
3.3 Estimating assistance to tourism
3.4 Interpreting assistance estimates for policy purposes
3.5 Summing-up
4 Dedicated tourism assistance and event and convention support
4.1 Dedicated tourism assistance
4.2 Event attraction activities
4.3 Convention centres and bureau support
4.4 Total assistance to tourism from dedicated tourism assistance and event and convention support
5 Other budgetary outlay assistance to tourism
5.1 Multi-purpose budgetary outlay assistance
5.2 Incidental budgetary outlay assistance
5.3 Total multi-purpose and incidental assistance
6 Taxation measures
6.1 Industry policy measures
6.2 Tourism-related financial imposts
6.3 General revenue-raising measures
7 Summary assistance estimates and some implications
7.1 Summary estimates
7.2 Some implications
A Budgetary outlays assistance estimates
A.1 Data sources and data quality issues
A.2 Shares used to estimate outlay assistance Annexes
A.3 Detailed estimates
Annexes
A1 the Australian Government
A2 the New South Wales Government
A3 the Victorian Government
A4 the Queensland Government
A5 the South Australian Government
A6 the Western Australian Government
A7 the Tasmanian Government
A8 the Northern Territory Government
A9 the Australian Capital Territory Government
B Tax measures: analysis and estimates
B.1 Industry policy tax concessions
B.2 Tourism-related financial imposts
B.3 Goods and services tax
C Tourism expenditure by non-holiday/leisure visitors
D Comments on the paper’s approach to defining and measuring tourism
References
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