Gross domestic product

Tourism GDP and its components, labour income, mixed income and other operating surplus, are obtained from the input table of the supply and use tables. GDP is again calculated by sub-industry, just like supply, either through information obtained for the sub-industries or, if no information is available, allocated by supply shares. The tourism industry ratios are then used to calculate tourism GDP. In other words, if the tourism industry ratio for a given industry is 50%, one half of the industry’s GDP is allocated to tourism. This method also allows for the calculation of labour income, mixed income and operating surplus associated with tourism.

A special calculation is made to derive GDP for the “other industries”. These “other industries” (such as retail trade) are defined as non-tourism industries, or industries that do not meet the criteria for tourism industries but obtain some benefit from it. They produce some products bought by tourists. These products include groceries, alcoholic beverages from stores, pre-trip expenses, motor vehicle parts and repair and motor vehicle fuel and some other miscellaneous products (e.g., toiletries). Final domestic demand data are used to distribute these values across products. These data are then moved into an industry framework using shares of output for these products. The totals are then multiplied by input shares so that the GDP components can be isolated.