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The Travel and Tourism Satellite Account or the TTSA is an institution that accounts all contribution
of the travel and tourism industry of different countries. TTSA is an important tool to determine
the economics in detail.
Philippine Tourism Satellite Accounts
• Tourism Investments is 10.7 percent of the Country’s Total Fixed Assets; Government Spending o
n Tourism is 3.8 percent of Total Expenditures
• The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) releases for the first time two new and additional
indicators covering the period 2012 to 2019 on its annual compilation of the Philippine Tourism
Satellite Accounts. These indicators namely: (1) the tourism gross fixed capital formation; (2) and
the tourism collective consumption are part of the prescribed indicators elaborated in the 2008
Tourism Satellite Accounts: Recommended Methodological Framework (TSA:RMF) of the United
Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), an international guide in compiling the TSA for countries.
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Tourism Investments is 10.7 percent of the Country’s Total Fixed Assets; Government Spending o
n Tourism is 3.8 percent of Total Expenditures
Share of Tourism to GDP is 12.7 percent in 2019
• In 2019, the contribution of Tourism Direct Gross Value Added (TDGVA) to the
Philippine economy as measured by the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is
estimated at 12.7 percent.
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• Average Contribution of Tourism to GDP is 7.4 percent from 2000 to 2018
• The Philippine Tourism Satellite Accounts (PTSA) was revised following the
Overall Revision and Rebasing (ORR) of the Philippine System of National
Accounts. The PTSA revised series spans the period 2000 to 2018.
• The average share of tourism to GDP is 7.4 percent during the period.
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Average Contribution of Tourism to GDP is 7.4 percent from 2000 to 2018
Contribution of Tourism to the Philippine Economy
is 12.7 percent in 2018
Four Worlds
• After WWII world splits into two geopolitical
blocs and sphere of influence with contrary views
on government and religious beliefs.
• The bloc of democratic industrial countries within
the American influence sphere or the “first
world”
• The eastern bloc or the communist socialist
republic or the “second world”
• The remaining three quarters of the world
population, these are the states not aligned with
either bloc or “the third world”.
• The term fourth world refers to the unknown
nations or indigenous people. Capitalist industrial
First World Countries
First world refers to so called developed, capitalist,
industrial countries, a bloc of countries aligned with
America after WWII.
• List of Countries of the first world
• Member states of NATO. The term also includes
other industrialized countries such as Japan and
some former British colonies particularly Australia,
new Zealand and South Africa.
• The term first world can also mean industrialized
nation, developed countries, civilized world, in
contrast with poor, under developed, uncivilized.
• US aligned states Israel, Japan and South Korea .
• Former British colony Australia and New Zealand
• Neutral and more or less industrialized country
Austria, Switzerland Ireland and Sweden
Top ten First World Countries in terms of their Human
Development
• HDI or Human development Index is
published annually by UN.
• Three basic dimensions of human
development:
• Long and healthy life-measured by
life expectancy at birth
• Knowledge-measured by adult
literacy rate and combined primary
and secondary and tertiary gross
enrollment ratio.
• The decent standard of living-GDP
Top 10 First World Countries in terms of Press Freedom for the
year 2020
• Norway
• Finland
• Denmark
• Sweden
• Netherlands
• Jamaica
• Costa Rica
• Switzerland
• New Zealand
• Portugal
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• The third world are used to
describe the developing countries
of Africa, Asia and Latin America.
The third world includes the well
capitalist and communist
countries. There are 50 countries
listed under the United Nations
comparative analysis of poverty
(34 African countries, 10 Asian
countries, 5 Pacific island nations
and 1 Caribbean nation).
The Third World
• When people talk about the poorest or
underdeveloped countries of the world, they
often refer to them with the general
term Third World, and they think everybody
knows what they are talking about. But when
you ask them if there is a Third World, what
about a Second or a First World, you almost
always get an evasive answer. Other people
even try to use the terms as a ranking scheme
for the state of development of countries, with
the First World on top, followed by the Second
World and so on, that's perfect - nonsense.