Working meeting on preparations for the DGINS 2025 conference has taken place

Each year, the conference is hosted by a different member state of the European Statistical System (ESS), and this year this honour was given to the Croatian Bureau of Statistics

Lidija Brković, Director General of the Croatian Bureau of Statistics, together with Ivana Aljinović, Project Manager for DGINS 2025 and Head of the Director General's Office, and Tomislav Šuta, Mayor of the City of Split, held a working meeting at which excellent cooperation in the organisation of the international conference DGINS 2025, hosted by the City of Split, was confirmed.

On that occasion, the final details of the organisation of the conference were determined and the readiness of all parties involved for the successful implementation of this international event was confirmed. Split, as a historic city on the Adriatic coast, is an excellent location to discuss this important topic that has a strong impact on the European economy, and especially on Croatia.

On 22 and 23 October 2025, the DGINS 2025 conference, one of the most important gatherings of the heads of the national statistical offices of the EU Member States, representatives of the European Commission - Eurostat, the European Central Bank (ECB), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), will take place at the La Meridien Lav Hotel in Split.

The DGINS 2025 conference will discuss the future of tourism statistics, with a particular focus on sustainability, innovation and data modernisation. The focus will be on the following topics:

• user needs and their interaction with official statistics
• innovative practices as a tool to respond to user needs
• measuring the economic importance of tourism using an internationally recognised framework of tourism satellite accounts and measuring the sustainability of tourism
• the role of statistical frameworks and methodologies in measuring the sustainability of tourism
• strategy to improve data collection, coherence and comparability across regions and countries
• the design of future guidelines: How to balance user needs and producer constraints? How to meet existing and new user needs through unconventional sources and methods? How to combine and integrate these sources and methods into a multi-source and multidisciplinary process of statistical production? 

The conference will be held in cooperation with Eurostat, further strengthening the international dimension of this event and the expert exchange in the field of tourism statistics.

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