8.8.                  Quality management of tourism statistics requires that countries undertake steps to measure quality and report the results of such measurements to all participants in the statistical process and the general public. It is good practice for tourism statistics compilers to base their approach to quality measurement and reporting on the quality assessment frameworks developed by international, supranational and regional organizations. 

8.9.                  Countries are advised to develop a standard for regular tourism statistics quality reports which covers the full range of statistical processes and their outputs and uses the quality dimensions listed in the present section as its basis. Such reports can be producer‑oriented, with the aim of identifying strengths and weaknesses of the statistical process and leading to quality improvement actions, or user‑oriented, with the aim of keeping users informed on the methodology of the statistical process and the quality of statistical output. Both perspectives are important.

8.10.                  Countries should assess the strengths and weaknesses of the statistical process (data collection, processing and dissemination) and identify additional activities that might further improve data and metadata quality. Countries should identify quality measures or indicators. For example, the time lag from the end of the reference period to the release of a particular tourism statistics data set is a direct quality measure. One indicator of coherence is the availability of correspondence tables between classifications of tourism characteristic products and activities and national classifications of products and activities. It is good practice to have a limited but well‑defined set of indicators per quality dimension, which can be followed over time to ensure that users are provided with a useful summary of overall quality and its evolution. However, to ensure the best possible international comparability of quality assessments of tourism statistics, UNWTO intends to publish a list of suggested measures and indicators.