Sectoral Inter-Agency Committees (IAC) are created by the NSCB to provide the proper venue where experts and practitioners in the filed/sector meet to discuss the technical and operational aspects of various problems and issues covering the sector, and arrive at solutions to these issues.

The IAC-DSAT was reconstituted and renamed to Inter-Agency Committee on Tourism Statistics (IACTS) through NSCB Memorandum Order No. 011 Series of 2003to include other agencies responsible for the generation and use of tourism statistics and to expand the terms of reference to address the concerns on the improvement of tourism statistics and tourism satellite account.