Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services

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 
- 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