📋 Tender Overview
The Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism Roberto Snchez announced that the Peruvian government has been forming a multisectoral work team that will allow the creation shortly of the new Tourism Satellite Account CST. This will be a valuable tool to know with updated and relevant data the economic contribution of activities related to tourism in the country. Therefore at the Mincetur headquarters this afternoon a working group made up of representatives of public and private institutions related to the tourism sector met and was led by the Vice Minister of Tourism Isabel lvarez. At the meeting they discussed the status of tourism studies research and statistics. Officials and representatives of Mincetur Presidency of the Council of Ministers PCM Ministry of Culture Mincul Ministry of the Interior Mininter Ministry of Transport and Communications MTC Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion MTPE participated. Promper National Migration Superintendence Central Reserve Bank of Peru BCRP INEI Corpac Sunat Sernanp Cenfotur Copesco and Canatur. Vice-minister Alvarez affirmed that with the new Tourism Satellite Account it will be possible to find out important indicators such as the Gross Domestic Tourism Product Tourism GDP generated by economic activities the Domestic Tourism Consumption CTI made up of inbound and domestic tourism spending in addition to of other services provided to visitors and Tourism Employment in the different economic branches associated with this activity. As is known tourism has become a sector that drives growth and development due to its economic contribution job creation and source of foreign exchange as well as having a transversal nature. For this reason the creation of the new Tourism Satellite Account is transcendental which will have as guidelines what is indicated by the World Tourism Organization UNWTO. Shortly the Multisectoral Working Group will be installed which will provide the statistical information required to prepare the next Tourism Satellite Account. We need to have systematic updated and coherent information. We continue working to promote the reactivation of the sector concluded the Vice Minister of Tourism.
