Personal Motives

Personal motives include:

• leisure and holidays - the main motivation for travel outside work-time and periods of professional activity: the motivation factors are rest, the lure of exotic surroundings, cultural discovery, visiting friends and relatives, sports, etc;

• Business travel trips taken within the framework of professional activities: this category includes commercial travellers, airline crews on short or extended stopovers, government and international organisation officials on assignments and equipment installation engineers staying less than one year and employed by companies outside the country of installation;

• Congresses and other meetings - trips undertaken to attend a congress or other types of meetings (seminars, conferences, etc) for non-profit motives;

• Health - trips for medical reasons either to receive medical care or for health improvement by preventive medicine (fitness training, salt water cures, etc). This category also includes all therapeutic treatments and visits to thermal resorts;

• Study - visits abroad to attend courses or to undergo training in a study centre for one or more academic year(s);

• Religion - pilgrimages and trips to holy shrines.