Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services

Business travel
covers the acquisition of goods 
and services by 
business travellers
, who are going 
abroad for all types of business activities, such as carrier 
crews stopping off or laying over, government 
employees on official travel, employees of international 
organizations on official business, and employees doing 
work for enterprises that are not resident in the 
economies in which the work occurs. They may visit an 
economy for sales campaigns, market exploration, 
commercial negotiations, missions, meetings, production 
or installation work, or other business purposes on 
behalf of an enterprise resident in another economy. 
Business travel
also includes the acquisition of goods 
and services for personal use by seasonal, border and 
other workers who are not resident in the economy in 
which they are employed and whose employer is 
resident in that economy. 
3.82. 
Business travel 
includes the goods and services 
acquired for their own personal use by travellers whose 
main purpose of travel is for business (including goods 
and services for which business travellers are reimbursed 
by employers) but not the sales or purchases that they 
may conclude on behalf of the enterprises they represent.
3.83. The acquisition of goods and services for 
personal use by seasonal, border and other workers, who 
are not resident in the economy in which they are 
employed and whose employer is resident in that 
economy, is separately identified in the EBOPS 
subcomponent 
expenditure by seasonal and border 
workers
. All other 
business travel
is included in the 
EBOPS subcomponent 
other 
business travel.
3.84. 
Personal travel 
covers goods and services 
acquired by travellers going abroad for purposes other 
than business, such as holidays, participation in 
recreational and cultural activities, visits with friends 
and relations, pilgrimage, and education- and health-
related purposes. The present 
Manual
recommends a 
breakdown of personal travel into three sub-components 
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