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part, in the present Manual  those products are included 
indistinguishably in EBOPS component 236 travel. 
However, two of the tourism characteristic products (those 
relating to the purchase by visitors of accommodation and 
the serving of prepared food and beverages), which 
together comprise a substantial proportion of visitor 
consumption, are jointly described by the EBOPS 
memorandum item expenditure on accommodation and 
food and beverage serving services.    If compilers of 
statistics on international trade in services are able to 
identify expenditure on accommodation separately from 
expenditure on the products of food and beverage serving 
industries, that would be of assistance to compilers of 
tourism statistics; however, such a breakdown is not 
specifically recommended in the present Manual. 
17. All of the tourism characteristic products that are 
identified in TSA are linked to CPC, Version 1.0 and 
may be identified in the present Manual, although in 
some cases the relationships are only partial.
c
   For 
example, the tourism characteristic product relating to 
passenger transport is partly described by EBOPS 
components 207, 211, and 215 relating to passenger 
transportation (see chap. III of the Manual for the 
definition of transportation, passenger services). 
18. If statistics compiled on trade in services are to be 
used for compiling the tourism satellite account, or vice 
versa, adjustments will be needed for these differences 
in coverage. However, the data sources used for 
compiling balance of payments statistics are also likely 
to be relevant for compiling the tourism satellite 
account. 
                                                           
c
    See annex III of the Manual and annex II of Tourism Satellite 
Account: Recommended Methodological Framework. 

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