International Travel Survey, 2013: US and Overseas Visitors to Canada [Canada]

The International Travel Survey (ITS) is an ongoing survey conducted by Statistics Canada since 1920 to meet the requirements of the Balance of Payments of the Canadian System of National Accounts (BOP). Through the years, questions directed at collecting detailed characteristics of travellers for market research and industry planning were 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), Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), 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 (OECD) and the Pacific-Asia Tourism Association (PATA).国际旅行调查（International Travel Survey，以下简称ITS）是加拿大统计局自1920年起持续开展的专项调查，旨在满足加拿大国民账户体系国际收支（Balance of Payments，BOP）的相关统计要求。历经多年发展，为开展市场调研与行业规划而采集旅行者详细特征信息的相关问题模块被逐步纳入本次调查框架。当前，ITS可提供覆盖国际旅行者规模及旅行全维度详细特征的统计数据，具体涵盖旅行支出、活动内容、到访地点与停留时长等核心指标。本次调查的覆盖对象既包含从境外旅行返程的加拿大居民，也包括赴加拿大访问的国际访客。除契合国际收支相关统计要求外，ITS还被旅游卫星账户（Tourism Satellite Account，TSA）、加拿大边境服务局（Canada Border Services Agency，CBSA）、加拿大旅游委员会（Canadian Tourism Commission，CTC）、各省级旅游主管机构、美国商务部以及众多私营行业主体所采用。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（Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development，OECD）以及太平洋亚洲旅游协会（Pacific-Asia Tourism Association，PATA）等国际组织报送统计数据。