Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services

health-related expenditure
(total expenditure by those 
travelling for medical reasons), 
education-related 
expenditure 
(i.e., total expenditure by students), and all 
other
personal travel expenditure. This breakdown is the 
same as the supplementary information recommended in 
BPM5. In addition, separate data collected on, or 
estimated for, expenditure specifically on health and 
education services are useful for analytical purposes, and 
if these are available they should be provided separately. 
3.85. The present 
Manual
recommends an alternative 
disaggregation for 
travel
services, to distinguish 
expenditure on goods
, 
expenditure on accommodation 
and food and beverage serving services
, and 
all other 
travel expenditure
. This alternative disaggregation, 
included in the memorandum items to EBOPS, will 
allow the allocation of expenditure on services to mode 
2 supply of services. The separate identification of 
expenditure on accommodation and food services will 
facilitate more general analysis of travel expenditure. 
3.86. All goods and services (except international 
passenger fares) acquired by travellers from the 
economies in which they are travelling for their own use 
are recorded under 
travel
. These goods and services may 
be paid for by the traveller, paid for on his or her behalf 
or provided to him or her without a quid pro quo. The 
most common goods and services entered under 
travel
are lodging, food, beverages, entertainment and 
transportation within the economy visited (all of which 

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are consumed in the supplying economy), and gifts, 
souvenirs and other articles purchased for travellers’ 
own uses and which may be taken out of the economies 
visited.