Definition: Tourism prices, costs and tariffs

Category: Tourism

Prices on tourism can be considered as: 
- prices (including tariffs) of goods and services linked to tourism, the level of which influence tourism expenditure. The prices of these goods and services are related to the demand side of tourism and are consumer prices;
- prices of goods and services which determine the cost of tourism production. The prices of these goods and services refer to the supply side of tourism and are called either cost of production prices or input prices on tourism.
Source:
Eurostat and Directorate-General XXIII of the European Commission, "Community methodology on tourism statistics", Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1998, p. 42
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