Estadísticas de turismo en el sistema europeo de estadísticas
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Europe remains a major tourist destination and six of the Member States are among the world's top ten destinations for holiday-makers. As a result, tourism plays an important role in terms of its economic and employment potential, while pre-senting social and environmental implications; these twin characteristics drive the demand for reliable and harmonised statistics within this field. Since the recognised role of tourism as a tool of development and socio-economic integration can be better ensured through knowledge of the basic related statistics, a system tourism statistics has been laid down in Council Directive 95/57/EC of 23 November 1995 on the collection of statistical information in the field of tourism. This legal basis requires the national governments of the EU Member States to provide a regular set of comparable tourism statistics. This article aims at giving a broad overview of the available tourism-related statistics at the level of the European Union on the basis of the latest available results. The focus is on data at the EU level, but the analysis includes data at the Member State level and cross-country comparisons of the tourism indicators. Besides the core tourism statistics data compiled on the basis of the Directive, the article also includes results from other fields of official statistics that can be relevant for analysing tourism in Europe.