The Added Value of National Tourism and Related Industries Accounted for 3.96 Percent of GDP

According to accounting, the added value of national tourism and related industries in 2021 was 4,548.4 billion yuan, an increase of 12.0 percent over the previous year (not excluding price factors, the same below), accounting for 3.96 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), a decrease of 0.05 percentage point over the previous year.

In terms of internal structure, the added value of tourism was 4,072.4 billion yuan, an increase of 11.8 percent over the previous year; it accounted for 89.5 percent of the added value of tourism and related industries, a decrease of 0.2 percentage point over the previous year. The added value of tourism related industries was 476 billion yuan, an increase of 13.4 percent over the previous year; it accounted for 10.5 percent of the added value of tourism and related industries, an increase of 0.2 percentage point over the previous year.

In terms of growth rate, all categories are back to growth. Among them, tourism catering, tourism shopping and tourism entertainment recovered faster, and increase 18.6, 14.5 and 15.6 percent respectively.

Value Added of National Tourism and Related Industries in 2021

Notes: 1. The growth rate is the current price growth rate, without deducting the price factor.

　　2. Due to the rounding error of the value, the data items may not equal to the total amount. 

Annotations:

I. Explanatory Notes

Tourists refer to those who go to places other than the usual environment for the purpose of sightseeing, leisure and entertainment, visiting relatives and friends, culture and sports, health care, short-term education (training), religious worship, or for reasons of official business or business, and the travel duration is less than one year.

Tourism refers to the activities of tourists, including travel, accommodation, catering, sightseeing, shopping, entertainment and other activities.

Tourism and related industries refer to the collection of activities that directly provide travel, accommodation, food, tourism, shopping, entertainment and other tourism services for tourists in national economic activities, as well as related services for tourism.

The value added of tourism and related industries refers to the added value created by all permanent resident units of a country for tourism and related industrial production activities within a certain period of time.

The term "resident unit" refers to an economic unit with a center of economic interests in China's economic territory.

Production refers to the activities of creating new output of goods and services by using labor, capital, goods and services input under the control and organization of institutional units.

II. Accounting Classification

The accounting classification of value added of tourism and related industries is based on the National Tourism and Related Industries Statistical Classification (2018) issued by the National Bureau of Statistics. The National Tourism and Related Industries Statistical Classification (2018) is a derivative classification of the National Economic Industry Classification (GB/T 4754-2017), which is a re-classification of activities in line with the characteristics of tourism and related industries in the National Economic Industry Classification (GB / T 4754-2017).

The value-added accounting of tourism and related industries adopts two-level accounting classification. According to the characteristics of the activities, the first level is divided into nine categories: tourism travel, tourism accommodation, tourism catering, tourism sightseeing, tourism shopping, tourism entertainment, tourism comprehensive services, tourism auxiliary services and government tourism management services. On the basis of the first level classification, the second level classification is subdivided into 65 small categories (middle categories) of national economic industries.

III. Accounting Method and Data Source

The value added of tourism and related industries shall be calculated in accordance with the Accounting Method for Value Added of Tourism and Related Industries formulated by the National Bureau of Statistics. The data required for the accounting are from the data of the fourth national economic census, the national economic accounting and the survey data of consumption structure of tourism and related industries.