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Table III.-United States Citizens Departed from United States and Canadian Seaports to Oversea Countries: Immediate Destination (Country of Debarkation), Class of Steamship Accommodation, and Registry of Carrier, 1937

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Table III.-United States Citizens Departed from United States and Canadian Seaports to Oversea Countries: Immediate Destination (Country of Debarkation), Class of Steamship Accommodation, and Registry of Carrier, 1937-Continued

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Source: Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Labor.

Table IV.-Estimated Per Capita Expenditures of United States Citizens Visiting Oversea Areas, 1935-37

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1 The data represent estimated gross per capita expenditures. The estimates of total expenditures entered in table 8, on the other hand, are net after deduction of estimated expenditures for travel on United States vessels, which, although a part of gross travel outlays, are not international payments.

NOTE. The class averages for citizens visiting Europe and the Mediterranean area are mean averages computed from questionnaire returns. The general averages for the area were derived by dividing the sum of estimated total expenditures (computed by classes) by the total number of departures for the area in each year and were weighted therefore by the number of departures in each class. The class averages for citizens visiting the Far East and the all-class averages for those visiting South America are median reported expenditures for the 3 years 1935-37 combined. The general averages for the Far East are weighted by the number of departures in first class and in all other classes combined in each year. The averages for citizens visiting the West Indies and Central America are based only in part upon questionnaire data.

The gross expenditures of United States citizens visiting oversea areas in 1937, before deductions for fare payments to, and expenditures on board, United States vessels, were $147,000,000, $24,000,000, and $43,000,000, respectively, in Europe and the Mediterranean area, South America and the Far East, and the West Indies and Central America, as compared with payments to foreign vessels and expenditures in foreign countries of $141,000,000, $18,000,000, and $34,000,000, respectively, in the three areas. The earnings of United States vessels from the carriage of United States citizens between the United States and noncontiguous foreign countries in 1937 were therefore approximately $21,000,000 (including, however, incidental expenditures on board ship), a reduction of $2,000,000 from computed earnings from this traffic in 1936. This decline may be attributed in part, if not entirely, to the maritime strikes affecting United States vessels which occurred in 1937. Fare payments to, and expenditures on board, foreign vessels by United States citizens visiting oversea countries were estimated at $70,000,000 in 1937, as compared with $55,000,000 in the preceding year.

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Table V.-Departures of United States Citizens Via Seaports and Land Ports for Foreign Countries, by Months, 1936-37 2

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1 Departures of United States citizens from Canadian seaports and departures via aircraft for foreign destinations are included.

2 Departures via seaports cover both temporary and permanent departures; departures via land ports represent permanent departures only.

3 Total departures via seaports less departures via seaports for Canada and Mexico and departures via aircraft.

Source: Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Labor.

The seasonal distribution of travel to foreign countries by United States citizens (including, in addition to departures via seaports for oversea destinations, departures via seaports for Canada and Mexico, departures via aircraft, and permanent departures via the land borders, but excluding cruises) are given in table V for 1936-37.

The number of citizens on cruise tours in 1937 is shown in table VI by class of accommodation and by reported destination. For purposes of estimating cruise expenditures, cruise tourists touching Canadian and Mexican points are excluded from consideration. This exclusion reduced the basic number of cruise passengers from 116, 102 to 101,977. Since many cruises carry passengers to passport areas, the returns from questionnaires distributed to passport applicants include a fair sampling of expenditures on "long" cruises to these areas, which provided the basis for estimated average expenditures of $1,414 in 1937, as compared with $1,466 in 1936. On the other hand, outlays for "short" cruises to nonpassport areas must be estimated upon the basis of steamship-company data, advertisements, and similar sources of information. The average adopted for 1936 and 1937 was $300.

Table VI.-United States Citizens on Cruise Tours, 1937 1

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1 Departures from Puerto Rico are included.

Source: Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Labor.

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