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TOURISM The data on establishments providing catering and accommodation services (tables 8-1. – 8-6.) were obtained by an ad-hoc statistical survey. The purpose of the survey was to get basic data on establishments (local units), which have the provision of accommodation or catering services recorded in the Business Register as their principal or secondary activity. The data listed in the other tables have been obtained through regular statistical survey. Accommodation establishments (collective and individual) refer to establishments that provide temporary accommodation to tourists on a regular or irregular basis. The collective accommodation establishments include hotels, motels, botels, boarding houses, holiday dwellings, campsites, tourist lodging houses and other establishments. The individual accommodation includes rented rooms, dwellings, weekend-houses, and accommodation at family farms. 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). Motel is an accommodation establishment with a minimum of 10 rooms, providing usually temporary stay for motorists and parking facilities in close quarters. 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.). Individual accommodation provides a limited number of places for private accommodation of tourists. Bed places 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 multiplied by a factor of 4 (it is assumed that they accommodate 4 persons). 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 one unit higher than the average number of overnight stays. TRANSPORT The data on transport were obtained from external sources – from the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications (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 (number of motor vehicles). Source data for the processing of information on border crossing were provided by the Directorate of Alien and Border Police Service (data on persons) and the Directorate General of Customs (other data). 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. The figures on passengers transported by the public transit are derived from season and other tickets sold and from the amount of money received for sales of individual tickets, using coefficients to take account of the size of city/town. The seat-kilometre indicator shows the maximum offer of transport services available to the public in a given year. The seat-kilometre is defined as the fictitious move of one (1) seat/place available on a public transit vehicle over a distance of one (1) kilometre, the number of the seats/places available for sitting/standing in a vehicle being specified by the manufacturer of the vehicle. The column Name of crossing gives the names of customs border crossing were taken over from the Ministry of the Interior’s data. The other indicators are split according to the direction in which the state border is crossed, i.e. arrivals and departures. The number of persons crossing the state border is expert-guessed at road or railway border crossings.Accurate numbers are given only for foreign visitors from countries with visa duty.
© Český statistický úřad, 2002