Analysis of tourism satelite accounts in Slovenia and it´s biggest turistic markets

Turizem je hitro rastoča gospodarska panoga, ki je prisotna v vseh državah po svetu. Zaradi hitre rasti obsega turizma je zelo pomembno njegovo natančno spremljanje v obliki statističnega merjenja. Posledica prej omenjenega trenda je, da se v zadnjem obdobju zraven tradicionalnih metod statističnega spremljanja turizma, ki merijo samo direktne učinke na narodno gospodarstvo, v večini držav čedalje bolj uveljavlja spremljanje turizma po metodi turističnih satelitskih računov, ki zraven direktnih učinkov zajame še indirektne učinke na gospodarstvo posamezne države. Zaradi večanja uporabe te statistične metode smo v empiričnem delu naloge naredili analizo najpomembnejših agregatov turističnih satelitskih računov na narodno gospodarstvo Slovenije, Italije, Avstrije in Nemčije. Rezultati, pridobljeni v analizi, so potrdili učinkovitost te metode, saj je tekom raziskave bil ugotovljen učinek teh računov na gospodarstvo štirih raziskovanih držav. Pozitivni rezultati, ki so podkrepili teorijo, kažejo na to, da bi vse resne turistične države morale uvesti ta način merjenja turizma, saj bodo lahko le na tak način dobile realne podatke, ki bodo kazali na dejansko velikost turističnega sektorja v posamezni državi.Tourism is a rapidly growing economic branch which is present in all countries around the world. Due to its rapid expansion, it is very important to monitor it accurately by means of statistical measurements. The consequence of the previously mentioned trend is that, in addition to the traditional methods of statistical monitoring of tourism, which measure only the direct effects on the national economy, the monitoring of tourism by the method of tourist satellite accounts is lately being increasingly applied in most countries. Among the direct effects, this encompases also the indirect effects on the economy of individual countries. Due to this statistical method being increasingly used, the empirical part of this thesis analyzes the most important aggregates of tourist satellite accounts on the national economy of Slovenia, Italy, Austria and Germany. The results obtained in this analysis confirmed the effectiveness of this method, since the effect of these accounts was established on the economy of the four targeted countries during the course of the research. The positive results that support the theory indicate that all serious tourist countries should introduce this method of measuring tourism, since this is the only way to obtain realistic data that will show the actual size of the tourist sector in each individual country