International Travel Survey, 1998: Overseas Resident Trips to Canada

The International Travel Survey (ITS) is an ongoing survey conducted by Statistics Canada since the 1920s to meet the requirements of the Canadian System of National Accounts (Balance of Payments (BOP)). Through the years, the need for detailed characteristics of travellers for market research and industry planning was gradually incorporated in the survey. Today, the ITS provides a full range of statistics on the volume of international travellers and detailed characteristics of their trips such as expenditures, activities, places visited and length of stay. The ITS covers both Canadian residents returning from trips outside Canada and international visitors to Canada. In addition to fulfilling BOP requirements, the ITS is also being used by the Tourism Satellite Account (TSA), Customs Canada, the Canadian tourism Commission (CTC), provincial tourism agencies, the United States Department of Commerce and a number of private sector industries. The ITS is also used for reporting to international organizations such as the World Tourism Organization (WTO), the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and the Pacific-Asia Tourism Association.

国际旅行调查（International Travel Survey，ITS）是加拿大统计局自20世纪20年代起持续开展的一项调查，旨在满足加拿大国民账户体系（国际收支平衡表（Balance of Payments，BOP））的要求。多年来，市场研究和行业规划所需的旅行者详细特征信息逐渐被纳入调查内容。如今，ITS提供关于国际旅行者数量的全面统计数据，以及其旅行的详细特征，如支出、活动、到访地点和停留时长等。ITS既涵盖从加拿大境外返回的加拿大居民，也包括前往加拿大的国际访客。除满足BOP要求外，ITS还被旅游卫星账户（Tourism Satellite Account，TSA）、加拿大海关、加拿大旅游委员会（Canadian Tourism Commission，CTC）、各省旅游机构、美国商务部以及众多私营行业所采用。此外，ITS还用于向世界旅游组织（World Tourism Organization，WTO）、经济合作与发展组织以及亚太旅游协会等国际组织提交报告。