8. Tourism, transport

TOURISM

The presented data on establishments providing catering and accommodation services (Tables 8-1 to 8-3) were obtained by aggregation of (i) information provided by an ad-hoc statistical survey (Sit 2001) conducted in the industry of hotels and restaurants in May to October 2001 and (ii) information on the activity of other businesses and other selected indicators obtained from other statistical surveys taken in the same reference period.

The Sit 2001 survey covered all businesses with, according to the Business Register, the registered number of employees under 20 and catering and accommodation services as their principal or secondary economic activity (CZ-NACE55) in spring 2001. Data for the remaining businesses (i.e., businesses with the same principal or secondary economic activity, but employing 20+ people as registered in the BR in spring 2001) were obtained via statistical surveys designated as MJ RES 2000 and CR 9-01.

The data listed in the other tables were obtained through a regular statistical survey.

Collective accommodation establishments refer to establishments that provide temporary accommodation to tourists on a regular or irregular basis. The collective accommodation establishments include hotels, boarding houses, holiday dwellings, campsites, tourist lodging houses and other establishments. Individual accommodation establishments (accommodation in private) were not measured in 2002.

Hotel is an accommodation establishment with a minimum of 10 rooms for guests and varied range of rendered services, depending on its class (number of stars). Boarding house is an accommodation establishment with a minimum of 10 rooms for guests, providing a rather limited range and lower level of social and supplementary services than a hotel, but whose accommodation services are comparable to those available at a hotel of corresponding category. Campsite is an accommodation establishment for temporary stay of guests in their own equipment (tent, caravan, etc.), or possibly in the facilities of operator (cottages, cabins, bungalows, etc.). Holliday dwellings are establishments for temporary stay of guests solely in the operator’s facilities (cottages, log cabins, bungalows). Other includes, e.g. recreational facilities of companies, spas, training centres, and other accommodation establishments allocating some bed capacity for tourism (such as young people’s homes, halls of residence, lodging houses managed by companies, etc

Beds in accommodation establishments are all beds used for overnight rest of guests (including occasional beds). Category indicates the type of accommodation establishment. Open-air places refer to places in the open air of campsites – they correspond to the number of places for tents, caravans and campers. Guests in an accommodation establishment are persons (including children and excluding owners and operating personnel of the accommodation establishment) who use services of the accommodation establishment for their temporary stay. The guest may use services of the accommodation establishment for the purpose of holiday, tour, business trip, training, course, congress, symposium, curative stay at health resorts, multi-week educational stay of young school children out in the country or stay of children at summer and winter holiday camps. Persons (Czech nationals and foreigners) who use accommodation establishment for temporary stay for the purpose of employment are not included. The length of temporary stay shall not exceed 1 year for the guest to be taken as a tourist. Foreign guests are foreign visitors who spent at lest one night in tourist accommodation establishments. Average length of stay is by one unit higher than the average number of overnight stays.

The data on railway and road border crossings were provided by the Police of the CR, the Directorate of Alien and Border Police (for persons) and the Directorate General of Customs of the CR (others). The names of the customs border crossing correspond to the names used by the Ministry of the Interior of the CR. The other indicators are broken down by direction in which the state border is crossed: to the CR (arrivals) and out of the CR (departures). The number of persons crossing the state border is obtained by expert guesses made at the customs border crossings. The number of foreigners from countries with visa duty is accurate.

TRANSPORT

The data on transport were obtained from external sources – from the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications (the length of railway network), Road and Motorway Directorate of the CR (length of road network) and the Police Headquarters, Ministry of the Interior of the CR (the number of motor vehicles).

The length of operated railway lines is the length of continuous rail tracks. It does not include other transport and handling tracks. The road network includes overall lengths of roads classified to classes I, II, III and IV (including their sections in cities, towns and villages, which are incorporated into the network). The numbers of vehicles are taken over from police statistics. Registered only are motor vehicles with registration plates assigned as at 31 December.