I.U.0.T.O.

ITS/CIR/T4(3)
October 1974

INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL STATISTICS
VOLUME 27 - 1973

This is the seventh edition of "International Travel Statistics" to be produced
 by the offset printing process on loose-leaf sheets placed in a binder. It is
also the twenty-seventh consecutive publication in a series which dates from 1947,
and which records the phenomenal development of international tourism in the postwar
 era.

Thanks to numerous extensions and improvements, "International Travel
Statistics" remains the only truly complete source of information on world tourism
today, as in the past. In a constant effort to serve the needs of world-wide
tourism planning and research, further improvements made in previous years have
been retained in the present edition. They include :

more precise information on the definitions and methods employed
by individual countries to collect travel statisties, so as to facilitate
 international comparisons

a wider coverage of countries, particularly those in which tourism
is developing rapidly, thanks to the accession of further countries
to membership of the Union

information on the international travel statistics of a number of
non-member countries, to complete the picture

- &amp; new series of statistics on accommodation capacity aimed to assist
the comparison of the growth of travel demand with that of tourist
facilities

the use of a uniform classification of accommodation establishments
-hotels and similar establishements- so as to permit evaluation of
these statistics on a comparable basis,

The publication which is herewith addressed to you is not yet complete.
It will be supplemented by further mailings of 1973 international travel statistics.
 These additional statistics will be published as loose-leaf tables, ready
to be interleaved with those already contained in the yellow binder. They will
be identified by the reference which appears at the foot of each page : VOL 27 - 1973
Finally, summary sheets of international travel movements and payments will
be sent to complete the mailing of statistics for the 1973 volume.
Further copies of this publication may be obtained promptly by sending the
Order form completed and signed directly to :

Publications Division (ITS/73)
International Union of Official
Travel Organizations
Case postale 7
CH - 1211 GENEVA 20 / Switzerland

VOL 27 - 1973