Request For Proposals (RFP): International Tourism Visitor Survey TSA- Chemonics International عودة إلى الفرص

Société: Chemonics International / Projet: USAID Visit Tunisia Activity

Objet: Request For Proposals (RFP): International Tourism Visitor Survey TSA.

The USAID-funded Visit Tunisia Activity is a 5-year project designed to enhance Tunisia’s tourism potential, with the goal of generating revenue and jobs, particularly for women and youth, and for populations in underserved regions of the country. The overall vision behind USAID’s investment in Tunisia’s tourism sector is to capitalize on Tunisia’s natural, cultural, heritage and historical sites to develop a more diversified and high-quality tourism sector that contributes to broad-based economic growth. The project will seek to achieve the following four objectives:

• Objective 1: Enhance Tunisia’s competitiveness as a tourism destination.
• Objective 2: Increase tourism-related investments and revenue.
• Objective 3: Improve the enabling environment for sustained growth in the tourism sector.
• Objective 4: Private sector engagement to expand the offer and quality of alternative tourism.

This project will collaborate with the relevant ministries, private sector, and donors to advance the objectives while contributing to the following high-level results:

1. Increase in the number of tourists.
2. Increase in the number of jobs in the tourism sector.
3. Increase in tourism revenue.
4. Increase in private sector-led investment and innovation in the tourism sector.

In Tunisia, the current tourism statistics are based on calculations of international arrivals, presented in an annual report by ONTT. This data does not provide a baseline for analysis, forecasting or generation of useful information for informed tourism planning and marketing. The statistical information systems currently available is insufficient, incomplete, and not fit to purpose as a robust provider of rigorous data to inform policy formulators, decision makers or future investors.

Strengthening the tourism statistics collection, analysis, and reporting system in addition to the necessity to prepare a Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) for Tunisia is an urgent request from both public and private sectors partners. Building a TSA requires information on inbound tourism visitors’ expenditures, among other data points. The most effective and common methodology for estimating visitor expenditure is through a visitor survey. This survey will be conducted at the point of departure of visitors (at airports, seaports, and land borders) so that visitors can report on all aspects of their trip. Combining this data with country of residence, age, gender, and travel group allows for powerful profiling of visitors which can be used for analysis, marketing and other activities.

A visitor survey is not only an essential requirement for measuring the economic impact of tourism or compiling a Tourism Satellite Account, but it is also a vital tool for the development of the tourism sector.

ONTT, in coordination with INS, identified the need for an International Tourism Visitor Survey (ITVS) 2023 to capture detailed expenditure data of visitors travelling to Tunisia.

Accordingly, to build a TSA for Tunisia, USAID Visit Tunisia will support the preparation of International Tourism Visitors Survey and is soliciting a survey company to conduct this survey in line with agreed methodology, sampling and implementation controls.

Scope of Work

The USAID Visit Tunisia Activity team working on enabling environment for sustained growth in the tourism sector is aware that for expanding its tourism potential, Tunisia must compile verifiable information that will help it identify new markets and product opportunities to become more competitive and expand tourism economic impact. Having more and reliable tourism statistics is essential for policymakers to make effective decisions. Only with sufficient and adequate data that generate credible statistics it is possible to undertake different types of analysis of tourism. This is essential to evaluate the different aspects of tourism and to support and improve policy and decision-making.

Strengthening the tourism statistics collection, analysis and reporting system is an urgent request from both public and private sectors partners. In addition, tourism partners have emphasized the necessity to prepare a Tourism Satellite Accounts (TSA). Through the TSA it will be possible to analyze in detail all the aspects of demand for goods and services associated with the activity of visitors (tourists).

The TSA compilation includes Table 1 (inbound expenditure), data concerning inbound tourism consumption in cash, which means monetary transactions of inbound visitors who travel to Tunisia and include both day visitors and tourists (those staying overnight).

To complete this table of the TSA, USAID Visit Tunisia will conduct an International Tourism Visitor Survey (ITVS) to support the collection of information related to expenditure by international visitors to Tunisia.  This survey will support data collection related to consumption of the following products:

• Accommodation
• Food and beverages
• Passenger transport
• Travel agency, tour operator and tourist guide services
• Transport equipment rental (such as car hire)
• Cultural services
• Recreational services.

The successful offeror shall deliver to Chemonics Visit Tunisia the following deliverables, in accordance with the schedule set forth in II.4 below.

• Deliverable No. 01: Survey Plan
• Deliverable No. 02: Survey Preparation
• Deliverable No. 03: Survey Execution
• Deliverable No. 04: Analysis

(More details and requested data on the below attached file).

Deadline for offers: February 06, 2023, 5 PM local time of Tunis

Offers must be emailed to: procurement@visittunisiaproject.org

RFP-VT-2023-002_International Tourism Visitor Survey TSA