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The Transportation Satellite Accounts creates a comprehensive means for measuring the contribution of transportation services to the national economy.
Other national measures only explicitly show the value of transportation added by transportation...
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U.S. Department of Transportation
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
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TTSA Q&A
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Data users
Over 1,400 subscribers to the account
Trade journals use our releases as the basis for articles
The Congressional Travel and Tourism Caucus
The Secretary of Commerce...
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In 2014, 7.9 million persons worked in travel and tourism
5.5 million directly (airline pilots, hotel staff…)
2.4 million indirectly (airline caterers, hotel toiletry manufacturers…)
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The foundations for the TTSA are the Input-Output (I-O) accounts
Benchmark I-O tables (available every five years)
Annual I-O tables (available each year)
Quarterly TTSA estimates are extrapolated using...
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Quarterly estimates are released online at U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
Check the release schedule for dates!
BEA 2016 News Release Schedule
Annual estimates are released in the Survey of...
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Quantifies the impact of travel and tourism activity on the economy
Compares travel spending by households, business and government
Tracks the value of tourism exports (inbound tourism) and imports (outbound tourism)
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Sarah Osborne
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Washington, D.C.
February 23, 2016
sarah.osborne@bea.gov
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Load Factor (Seasonally Adjusted) Dec-10 82.5 Jan-11 81.5 Feb-11 81.0 Mar-11 80.6 Apr-11...