A Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) is a set of statistical tables based on data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) that measures the economic contribution of tourism to an economy. The development of a TSA is necessary because there is no tourism "industry" identified within the current national accounting framework.
Previously, Tourism WA had relied on the state based satellite accounts by Access Economics to determine the economic impact of the tourism industry on the Western Australian economy. In total Access Economics produced two state based TSA's (2001-02 and 2005-06).
In November 2008, the Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre (STCRC) released a set of state by state TSA's based on data from 2006-07.
These new state based TSA's now provide the most recent and accurate data on tourism's contribution to the economy.
Please find the below link to the factsheet and full report.