International Travel Survey, 2016: Canadian Resident Trips Abroad [Canada]

<p>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. </p> <p>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). </p>

国际旅行调查（International Travel Survey，简称ITS）是加拿大统计局（Statistics Canada）自1920年起持续开展的常态化调查，旨在满足加拿大国民账户体系国际收支（Balance of Payments，BOP）的相关统计需求。多年来，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该调查体系。时至今日，ITS可提供覆盖国际旅行者规模的全维度统计数据，以及其旅行的各类详细特征信息，包括旅行支出、开展活动、到访地点与停留时长等。
该调查的覆盖对象既包含从境外旅行返回的加拿大居民，也包含赴加拿大访问的国际访客。除满足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）、各省级旅游机构、美国商务部以及众多私营行业机构所采用。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）以及亚太旅游协会（Pacific-Asia Tourism Association，PATA）等国际组织报送统计数据。