This publication is categorised as a CSO Frontier Series Output. Particular care must be taken when interpreting the statistics in this release as it may use new methods which are under development and/or data sources which may be incomplete, for example, new administrative data sources.
National Accounts provide a coherent and detailed picture of a country’s whole economy using international statistical standards. For this publication we have brought together the work done in these publications and narrowed the focus from the whole economy to provide insights into the Hospitality sector.
This Hospitality Value Chain (HVC) analysis describes the sector in detail drawing on many CSO outputs, mainly National Accounts, and external data sources. These include:
All data taken from the Annual National Income and Expenditure Accounts uses the 2023 vintage (with reference year 2021). We also use statistics from other agencies to provide a detailed economic portrait of the Hospitality sector in Ireland:
The Foreign/Domestic split of companies and employment in the publication is facilitated primarily through the use of the CSO Central Business Register (CBR).
The wide range of independent sources used in this publication has allowed a detailed analysis of the Hospitality sector. This is a Frontier Publication and the evaluation of sources and methods is subject to review and improvement.
This publication groups businesses by activity (also referred to as industry) using the EU’s Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community (NACE) Rev. 2 grouping. The HVC is broken down into a number of subsectors, as shown in Table 7.1. Some of the statistics in this publication are produced at the two-digit NACE level i.e. Accommodation and Food & Beverage Service activities. Where possible and appropriate, statistics are published by subsectors.
Products are grouped using the EU’s Statistical Classification of Products by Activity (CPA) Rev. 2.1 grouping. In the Producers chapter, Hospitality services are grouped into two main areas: Accommodation (CPA: 55) and Food & Beverage Service (CPA: 56).
Output is estimated at basic prices (i.e., not including the value of product taxes, product subsidies and trade margins that are levied on products). The product classifications in this publication are matched to CPA codes at the most detailed level possible and aggregated to the higher level for confidentiality.
Intermediate consumption is estimated at purchasers’ prices (i.e. including the value of product taxes, product subsidies and trade margins). The data on intermediate consumption is taken from the CSO Supply and Use tables. The product classification of intermediate consumption by product is mapped to CPA codes at the most detailed level. Further product detail is estimated using sources used in creating the CSO Supply and Use publication.
Further information on the terminology and data used in the Productivity chapter can be found here: Productivity in Ireland
The Micro, Small, Medium and Large classifications for productivity analysis follows that of the Business Demography survey.
Imports and Exports in the HVC come from the CSO Balance of Payments - Trade in Services and CSO Tourism and Trade. Imports are understood at the import of hospitality services which occurs when residents of Ireland consume hospitality services abroad. Exports occur when non-residents consume hospitality services domestically i.e. foreign tourist spending in Ireland.
Data for imports and exports in the hospitality industry are collected by Tourism and Travel, and essentially covers the goods and services acquired in one economy by a resident of another economy during visits of less than one year. The results shown for tourism and travel are derived from the tourism statistics collected and compiled by the CSO primarily from its quarterly Passenger Card Inquiry (PCI) and from its monthly Country of Residence Survey (CRS). It should be noted that the tourism/travel exports item represents receipts of residents from non-resident visitors other than passenger fare receipts of Irish passenger carriers from non-residents; the latter are included under transport exports.
An employment, as shown in Figure 1.3 and 1.4 of the Labour chapter, is defined as the single job an employee holds in the hospitality sector, even if their primary or secondary job is in a sector outside of hospitality. Real-time PAYE modernisation data from the Revenue Commissioners is used to count the total number of jobs in the Hospitality industry, and take account of secondary employments in the sectors. It is also used as a means to calculate monthly snapshots of all jobs worked in Hospitality. When an employee holds one or more jobs, the primary employment is defined as the job with the highest salary. The figures include employments that were continued under the Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme (EWSS).
The CSO cannot publish any commercially sensitive information (for example, company wage bills), or any statistics that would allow readers to easily infer data for a single company. For this reason, data is put together into larger groups (aggregated) so that no single statistic is completely dominated by a single company. While more detail would generally be preferable, by keeping some statistics confidential, the CSO can assure survey respondents that their data will not be shared, and this provides higher quality statistics overall.
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