IUOTO - INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL STATISTICS

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"any person without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion,
 who enters the territory of a Contracting State other than that
in which that person normally resides, and remains there for not less
than twenty-four hours, and not more than six months, in the course
of any twelve-month period, for legitimate non-immigrant purposes,
such as touring, recreation, sports, health, family reasons, study,
religious pilgrimages or business."

(e) United Nations Conference on International Travel and Tourism,
—_—_— ee ses pn srrernatlonal Travel ana Tourism,
Rome 1963

In 1963, the United Nations Conference on International Travel and
Tourism considered a definition, prepared by IUOTO, and recommended its
study to the United Nations Statistical Commission and to IUOTO. The Conference
 accepted, firstly, an overall definition for the term "visitor"
which for statistical purposes "describes any person visiting a country
other than that in which he has his usual place of residence, for any reason
 other than following an occupation remunerated from within the country
visited”. This definition covered two classes of visitors - "tourists"
and "excursionists", which were defined as follows:

"tourists", i.e. temporary visitors staying at least twenty-four
hours in the country visited and the purpose of whose journey can be
classified under one of the following headings:
leisure (recreation, holiday, health, study, religion and
sport);
(ii) business, family, mission, meeting.
"excursionists", i.e. temporary visitors staying less than twentyfour
 hours in the country visited (including travellers on cruises).

(i)

"The statistics should not include travellers who, in the legal sense
do not enter the country (air travellers who do not leave an airport's
 transit area, and similar cases) ."
(f) United Nations Statistical Commission - Expert Group on International
 Travel Statistics, 1967
The Expert Group recommended the use of the definition of "visitor"
as proposed by the United Nations Conference on International Travel and
Tourism, Rome 1963. The Group did not recommend the division of visitors
into tourists and excursionists but that, within the definition of visitors
 a separate class of visitors, possibly described as "day visitors" or
"excursionists", should be distinguished. This sub-group should consist
of visitors on day excursions and others who cross borders for purposes
other than employment, cruise passengers and visitors in transit who do
not stay overnight in accommodation provided within the country. The special
 characteristic of the day visitor or excursionist was that there was
no overnight stav.

(g) United Nations Stati-*ical Commission, 1968

The Commission considered the work of the Expert Group a useful step
forward in the development of statistics of tourism. It endorsed, in

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