The tourism supply of an industry is derived by summing the value of tourism products sold by that industry. The value of tourism product sales is derived as the total supply (national production plus imports) multiplied by its corresponding tourism product ratio.
In 2005, the value of total supply by product and by industry was sourced from the balanced supply and use tables for these years (see appendix 6, Detailed tables for 2005).
In the absence of supply and use tables for the years ended March 2006–09, an initial value of supply by product by industry was made from a variety of sources (covered in detail in appendix 3, Methodology). Supply by product and value added are shown only for tourism-characteristic industries and for all other industries. (See appendix 5, Tourism industry concordance, for detailed listings.)
Total supply and tourism supply by product are shown in table 7 for the years ended March 2006–09.
Table 7
Table 7 continued
Points to note from table 7:
- Goods and services can be consumed/purchased by tourists and non-tourists. The tourism product ratio indicates the proportion of the supply of a product that is purchased by tourists. In 2009, for example, the tourism product ratio for accommodation services was 0.95. This means that almost all accommodation available was purchased by tourists. In contrast, tourists purchased only 21 percent of retail supplies of fuel and other automotive products.
- Tourism supply increased 1.0 percent in the March 2009 year. From 2006–09, tourism supply increased at a slower rate than total supply (12.1 percent compared with 13.7 percent over this three-year period).
- Imports consumed by tourists represent 7.9 percent of total tourism supply in the March 2009 year with the remainder provided by domestic industries.