Accommodation and food service activities, tourism

The monthly survey of accommodation and food services are part of the EU system of short-term statistics designed for purposes of monetary and economic policies. Furthermore they supply information on the use of various components of the individual consumption expenditure. Also, the monthly surveys of accommodation and food service activities represent an important supplement to the annual statistic of accommodation and food services that provide information on the structure of enterprises, cost-effectiveness and productivity in the area of accommodation and food services. To distinguish the monthly survey of accommodation and food services from the annual structural survey, the former are also referred to as short-term surveys.

The results of the annual survey supply information on the structure of enterprises that is essential for economic policy purposes, and they also make it possible to assess cost-effectiveness and productivity of accommodation and food service activities. The annual survey of accommodation and food services is important in that it supplements the results of the monthly statistics of accommodation and food services. It is also called structural survey to distinguish it from the monthly short-term survey.