Characteristics of the international visitor-flow

Tourism: Travel flows for leisure purposes.

Visitor/Traveller: Any person who travels for any – non-locally remunerated – purposes and spend less than one year away from his/her primary domicile.

Tourism Categories:

	Same-day visitors: visitors who arrive and leave the same day.
	Multi-day visitors: travellers who stay overnight (more detailed classification: 1–3 nights – short duration, 4 or more nights – long duration)
Travel Goals (Motivations) Touristic purpose:
	Leisure purposes: recreation, touring, sightseeing, hiking, visiting friends and relatives, spa/medical treatment, health preservation, visiting cultural and/or sport events, hunting, religious tours.
	Professional/Business purposes: conference, congress, business travels, attending meetings or fairs.
Non-touristic purpose:
	Shopping
	Others: private business, working, studies, other purposes.
Transit:
	Travel between the source area and the visited destination

Main purpose of the visit: the major travel motivation behind the journey.

International travel receipts (export): foreign exchange receipts originating from international visitors (spent by foreigners in Hungary) figuring in the international balance of payments (based on the data of the National Bank of Hungary).

International travel expenditures (import): expenditures spent by Hungarians travelling abroad figuring in the international balance of payments (based on the data of the National Bank of Hungary).

International visitor spending: international leisure and business spending in Hungary as well as international travel costs with related commissions and other transferred fees.

Resident expenditures: international leisure and other expenditures – including fees transferred for international residents – of Hungarian residents.

Data Revision

Concerning the "Leisure and Other Spending by International Visitors in Hungary" survey 2006 Q1 HCSO data bases were revised to meet methodological changes and new, available, data sources.

Imputation procedures were applied – over international visitor spending, transport costs and travel agent fees – in revising data.

Regarding the "Resident travel abroad" survey post-2004 data was adjusted to internal consumption.

Data correction: data may differ – due to retrospectively correcting sample data – from the ones published earlier.

Methodological Change

International same-day visitors using same border crossing points were regarded as excursionists in Q1 2007 and earlier data services.

Same-day international visitors with leisure purposes (see Figure) were regarded as excursionist in Q2 2007 quarterly report.

International travellers arriving from their source countries and heading to their foreign destinations were regarded as transit travellers.

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