People often choose where to spend their leisure time based in part on the characteristics of the natural or cultivated landscapes in a particular area. The report includes examples of studies of economic value or assessment of economic impacts of recreation and nature tourism (see: http://www.ieep.eu/work-areas/biodiversity/financing-biodiversity/ 2013/01/socio-economic-socio-economic-importance-of-ecosystem-services-in-the-nordic-countries-syn thesis). It supports the EEA contribution to the revision of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) which is currently being led by the United Nations Statistical Division (UNSD). The idea of a common international classification is an important one, because it was recognised that if ecosystem accounting methods were to be developed and comparisons made, then some standardisation in the way we describe ecosystem services was needed.