DIW Econ was in charge of calculating the tourism satellite accounts for Germany and the federal states of Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony-Anhalt and Schleswig-Holstein.
The methodology of the Tourism Satellite Account has been presented by the DITF in cooperation with DIW Econ in the following video.
DIW Econ has for the second time comprehensively examined the importance of the tourism industry in North Rhine-Westphalia based on internationally comparable calculation standards in cooperation with the Institute for Management and Tourism (IMT) at the West Coast University of Applied Sciences and dwif-Consulting.
The central results confirm the growing importance of the tourism industry for NRW. Compared to the study published in 2013, tourism consumption in 2017 showed a nominal growth of 11.6 per cent.
The brief expertise on behalf of the Federal Association of the German Tourism Industry (BTW) deals with the economic structure of the tourism industry in Germany and the federal political framework conditions for the growth and development of the industry.
DIW Econ study: Airbnb travellers spent more than 1 billion euros on local consumption in Germany in 2016
The study commissioned by the Federal Association of the German Tourism Industry (BTW) funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi) uses internationally established economic statistical methods to present the economic significance of tourism in Germany within the framework of a Tourism Satellite Account.
In accordance with the official economic statistics of the Federal Statistical Office, the structure and level of tourism consumption and the associated effects on gross value added and employment are recorded. The study also deals with the effects of digitisation on the tourism industry.