International Travel Survey, 1990-2000: U.S. 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1920年代起持续开展的一项调查，旨在满足加拿大国民经济核算体系（Canadian System of National Accounts）中关于国际收支（Balance of Payments, BOP）的相关要求。多年来，市场调研与行业规划对旅行者详细特征的需求逐步被纳入该调查范畴。如今，ITS可提供涵盖国际旅行者规模的全维度统计数据，以及旅行者旅行相关的各类细节特征，包括旅行支出、参与活动、到访地点与停留时长等。该调查的覆盖对象既包括从加拿大境外旅行归来的加拿大居民，也包括赴加拿大访问的国际访客。除满足国际收支核算的相关要求外，ITS还被旅游卫星账户（Tourism Satellite Account, TSA）、加拿大海关总署、加拿大旅游委员会（Canadian Tourism Commission, CTC）、各省级旅游机构、美国商务部以及众多私营部门行业所使用。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（Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development）以及太平洋亚洲旅游协会（Pacific-Asia Tourism Association）等国际组织报送统计数据。