TourStat (NIS - Belgium)

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Overview

TourStat is a software related to monthly statistics of the Belgian tourism (hotel business, camping and renting). TourStat offers the following functions:

  • Management of the profile of the PSI (provider of the statistical information);
  • Collection of data by type of accommodation (hotel, camping or renting) with range checks;
  • Printing of data or metadata (essentially classification of countries from where the tourists are issued);
  • Sending of data to NIS Belgium;
  • Management of the local database (refresh, backup and restore of the database);
  • Help modules.
TourStat allows to create a file under a standard predefined format; the PSI sends this file on a floppy disk to the NIS. Those data, after consistency checks, are integrated in the MVS/DB2 database located on the mainframe.

Platforms

Developed with dBase IV 1989, TourStat is a MS/DOS application for both the MS/DOS and the Windows platforms.

Type of users

TourStat is a multilingual tool available in Dutch, French and German to Providers of Statistical Information in Belgian tourism.

Distribution of the package

Figures about the number of users are not provided.

Availability of the software

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Source document containing the complete description

Doc. CoRD024: "A brief outline on existing data collection tools and new developments at National Institute of Statistics of Belgium"
 

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