International Travel Survey, 2008: Canadian Resident Trips Abroad (United States)

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年代起持续开展的调查项目，以满足加拿大国民账户体系（国际收支平衡表（Balance of Payments，BOP））的相关需求为目标。多年来，市场调研与行业规划所需的旅行者详细特征信息需求逐步被纳入调查范畴。如今，ITS可提供涵盖国际旅行者规模及旅行全维度特征的统计数据，具体包括旅行支出、参与活动、到访地点与停留时长等内容。ITS的调查覆盖两类人群：从境外旅行归来的加拿大居民，以及赴加拿大的国际访客。除满足国际收支平衡表的相关要求外，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）、各省级旅游机构、美国商务部及多家私营行业所采用。此外，ITS还用于向国际组织报送统计数据，相关组织包括世界旅游组织（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。