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2. TOURISM CONSUMPTION IN BOTSWANA 2.1 General The TSA: RMF makes it very clear as to how visitors should be viewed. The visitor is a particular type of individual consumption unit, who is distinguished from other individuals by the fact that he/she is outside his/her usual environment and travels or visits a place for a purpose other than the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited. Otherwise he/she behaves like an ordinary consumer, so that the characteristics of consumption activity described in the SNA 1993 are also relevant for visitors. The distinction between a visitor and a non-visitor can be almost impossible to discern from the viewpoint of a supplier, and this is one of the key difficulties in compiling primary statistics for the TSA, that need to be based on information provided by the travellers themselves. Box 2.1: Concept of Usual Environment - UNWTO The concept of usual environment, and therefore tourism, has two dimensions. The first is frequency. Places which are frequently (on a routine basis) visited by a person are part of the usual environment of that person, even though these places may be located at a considerable distance from the place of residence. The second dimension is distance. Places located close to the place of residence are also part of the usual environment even though the actual spots are rarely visited. Therefore the usual environment consists of a certain area around the place of residence plus all places visited rather frequently. …there is no single operational definition of „usual environment‟ that can be applied all over the world …. countries should look for a practical definition that excludes virtually all routine travel of their residents and travel to places very close to the usual place of residence from tourism. Internal tourism consumption, that is the consumption activity of visitors within a country, includes the consumption of the following individuals: Inbound international visitors, staying overnight (and thus being international tourists) – travelling for the purposes of holiday, business, VFR and a number of other tourism purposes, but particularly excluding visitors being remunerated from within the country visited; Inbound international visitors, not staying overnight, and thus being same-day visitors, but nonetheless travelling outside their usual environment. However, individuals coming into the country in order to make purchases of goods to sell back in their country of origin should be excluded; Domestic visitors staying overnight - travelling for the purposes of holiday, business, VFR and a number of other tourism purposes. Visiting one‟s second home is seen as a tourism purpose; Domestic visitors, not staying overnight, and thus being same-day visitors, but nonetheless travelling outside their usual environment; and Residents on an outbound trip, who spend something within their country of reference whilst being on an outbound trip – for example, pre-trip expenditure of things to bring along or use on the trip, transportation using a resident carrier, using the services of a resident travel agency, etc. 10
Internal tourism consumption is seen as including a number of categories of expenditure that will need to be estimated separately: Those acquired through direct expenditure by the visitors themselves; Those imputed to them (consumption for own final use); Those obtained from other institutional units as transfers in kind other than social transfers in kind; Those acquired as social transfers in kind from NPISH; Those acquired as social transfers in kind from the Government; and Those acquired for their benefit by businesses and that these businesses consider as part of their costs (intermediate consumption): transportation, accommodation costs paid for by businesses. Measuring tourism within Botswana is a very substantial task because of the physical size of the country and the large number of border posts (for the measurement of international tourism). More than this, most of the border posts are road border posts involving a substantial level of cross border travel. Many Government Departments have had to contribute to this task of putting together tourism statistics. Figure 2.1: Botswana Border Posts 11
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