23 - وقد صممت الدراستان لتقييم نوعية البيانات المحصل عليها في عدد هام من البلدان وقابلية تلك البيانات للمقارنة، وتشدد النتائج النهائية على الحاجة إلى الاضطلاع بمبادرات محددة من أجل تحقيق تحسين في الميدانين معا.
Also, in a significant number of countries (about 40 have developed a tourism satellite account exercise or plan to develop one in 2004-2005, among which are countries as diverse as Canada, Costa Rica, France, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Spain and the United States of America), tourism satellite account development has revealed some challenges that had not been expected before this type of exercise was initiated, with regard to the credibility of a good part of the available tourism statistics, which have been (and still are) mainly associated with tourism demand.