Relevance
The main objective of the survey on
Collective Accommodation Establishments (known as ACCOMSTAT) is to estimate the
number of arrivals, number of nights spent, average length of stay and the
utilisation rate of bed-places of all active collective accommodation
establishments (that is, all collective accommodation establishments which were
at least open for one day throughout the reference month) in Malta and Gozo. Furthermore, the number of
bedrooms, number of bed-places, and number of days the establishment was closed
during the reference month are collected.
Tourism statistics is regulated by
Regulation (EU) No. 692/2011 concerning European statistics on tourism and
repealing Council Directive 95/57/EC. On a national level, tourism statistics
are used extensively in policy making by various Government entities and even
for research purposes.
Methodological
description of survey
ACCOMSTAT
is a monthly census which is conducted among all collective accommodation
establishments. An
email or a letter is sent on the first day of the month requesting submission
of the data and information is collected through computer aided web interviewing
(CAWI), mail and post.
Accuracy
and reliability of data
Information
on the accuracy and reliability of data can be viewed in a dedicated quality
report on the NSO’s metadata website.
Timeliness
and punctuality of data
The
Collective Accommodation Establishments news releases are published on the
NSO’s website on a monthly basis. These
are published on the pre-established dates as scheduled in the Advance Release Calendar which is available on
the NSO’s website.
On an international level, the
characteristics of residents and non-residents are sent to Eurostat on a
monthly and annual basis respectively, so as to satisfy the requirements laid
down by the regulation.
Accessibility
and clarity of data
On a montly
basis, data related to ACCOMSTAT
is included on the NSO’s StatDB. This includes data related to bed-place occupancy by
period, region and type of residents.
For
national use, a quality report is compiled for Collective Accommodation
Establishments and made available on the NSO’s metadata website. For international use a metadata and quality
report are compiled for the supply side of tourism statistics.
Coherence
and comparability/consistency of data
Data
is fully comparable with other European countries since all requirements and
recommendations laid down by the regulation and Methodological Manual for
Tourism Statistics are met.
Data
is fully comparable from January 2013. This
follows after the reclassification of all collective accommodation
establishments registered as apart-hotels to hotels by the Malta Tourism
Authority (refer to Legal Notice 351, 2012).
Figures from
ACCOMSTAT are use for National Accounts purposes, and therefore ACCOMSTAT and National
Accounts should be fully reconcilable.
Statistics on non-resident arrivals and nights from TOURSTAT and the survey on Collective Accommodation
Establishments are not directly comparable in view of different definitions and
methodologies.
Questionnaire | Metadata