The United States travel account

For the purpose of estimating travel receipts and expenditures, the Office of Business Economics in the Department of Commerce which gathers this data, recognizes three major travel categories: Canada, Mexico and Overseas. Travel with neighboring countries is broken down into short‐term and long‐term travel. In the case of Canada, short‐term travel is that which takes place in less than 24 hours. For the Mexican account, it is travel under 72 hours. The Overseas category is subdivided into four areas: Europe and the Mediterranean, West Indies and Central America, South America and all other countries.