Statistical Yearbook of the Czech Republic

Notes on tables

Tables 18-1. to 18-5. Basic indicators of trade and hotels and restaurants

       The economic entity of the survey is an enterprise classified by CZ-NACE according to its principal activity under:
50 - Sale, maintenance and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles; retail sale of automotive fuel,
51 - Wholesale trade and commission trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles,
52 - Retail trade, except motor vehicles and motorcycles; repair of personal and household goods,
55 - Hotels and restaurants.

      The data for all of the three years (1999, 2000, 2001) were derived from the results of the processing of annual statistical questionnaires of the CZSO, filled in by enterprises with principal activities in trade (CZ-NACE 50, 51, 52) and hotels and restaurants (CZ-NACE 55).

      Sales (revenues), total - sales of own goods, services and goods for resale (in single-entry bookkeeping: revenues from sale of own goods, services and goods for resale).

      Employment and financial indicators are defined in Chapters 10. Labour and 16A. Industry, respectively.

Table 18-6. Sales index of trade, hotels and restaurants

      The economic entity of the survey is an enterprise classified to the CZ-NACE activities shown in the note on Tables 18-1 to 18-5 above. The calculation of the index is based on the results of processing monthly statistical questionnaires and the results of grossing up to universe - i.e. to all units incorporated in the Business Register, which fall under the above-mentioned CZ-NACE codes.

      The sales index (previous year = 100) is calculated:

• at current prices: for CZ-NACE activities 50, 51, 52, 55
• at constant prices (average of 2000): for CZ-NACE activities 50, 52, 55 (the index is not calculated for activities coded 51).

      The data were collected from the network of hotels and restaurants in the Czech Republic. The tables list information on the total number of restaurants and similar establishments serving meals and beverages in 2001.

       Restaurants and similar establishments serving meals, beverages, and providing other services are establishments whose nature of the services provided classifies them to CZ-NACE 55.3, CZ-NACE 55.4, and CZ-NACE 55.5, respectively.

       The column "Total" in Table 18-8 excludes restaurants and similar establishments with other services (CZ-NACE 55.5), whose floor area was not measured. For the purpose of this survey, the sale area is the area designed for consuming meals and beverages.

       Detailed data and information on trends in the basic indicators on trade and hotels and restaurants are given in the following CZSO publications brought out according to the Catalogue of Publications 2003 (group 9 - SERVICES, subgroup 91 - Trade, hotels and restaurants):

• "Retail Trade, Hotels and Restaurants" (Czech-English version) - quarterly in June, September, December 2003, and March 2004
• "Retail Trade, Hotels and Restaurants 1999-2001" (Czech-English version) - in June 2003
• "Results of Monthly Survey in Retail Trade, Hotels and Restaurants" (Czech-English version) - monthly, 60th calendar day

B. TOURISM

      Tourism statistics encompasses information on capacities and outputs of collective tourist accommodation establishments and on participants in international tourism.

Notes on tables

Table 18-9. Collective tourist accommodation establishments

      Collective accommodation establishments are establishments, which provide temporary accommodation to tourists, either regularly or irregularly. They include hotels, motels, botels, boarding houses, holiday dwellings, campsites, and tourist lodging houses, as well as others such as cultural period buildings, recreational establishments of enterprises, training centres and establishments offering beds for tourism (youth hostels, halls of residence, company accommodation facilities etc).

      Beds in collective accommodation establishments are all permanent beds used only for the overnight rest of visitors (they exclude extra beds).

      Places for tents and caravans are places designed for tents, caravans and campers. The figures given in the previous yearbooks were based on the assumption that a tent or a caravan accommodates four persons, which is why the number was multiplied by a factor of 4. In compliance with the methodology applied in the EU Member States, only numbers of places for tens or caravans will be brought out (also for the previous years).

      Arrival of guest - occurs the moment the guest is checked in an accommodation establishment.

      Guests in an accommodation establishment are persons (including children and excluding owners and operating personnel of the accommodation establishment) who use services of the establishment for their temporary stay. The guest (visitor) may use services of the establishment for the purpose of holiday, tour, business trip, training, course, congress, symposium, curative stay at health resorts, school in nature or at summer and winter holiday camps (children). Persons (Czech nationals and foreigners) who use accommodation establishment services for temporary stays for the purpose of employment are not included.

       The length of temporary stay shall not exceed 1 year for the guest to be taken for a tourist.

      IIn 1995 the survey was expanded to embrace all accommodation establishments run by incorporated businesses, hotels run by unincorporated entrepreneurs and part of other accommodation establishments run by unincorporated entrepreneurs whose economic activities significantly contributed to accommodation services provided in regions.

       Starting in 1996, the statistical surveys are based on the use of a special register of accommodation establishments.

       Between 1998 and 2001, all collective accommodation establishments were measured for capacity and 30% of them sampled for output.

       For the year 1995 the table only lists data from the questionnaires submitted and processed. Since 1999, grossed up data are shown, which are sums of the data processed from submitted questionnaires and imputed data on the accommodation establishments that either failed to present a completed questionnaire or had not been included into the sample.

Table 18-11. Collective tourist accommodation establishments: outputs

      Net use of bed places refers to net occupancy of permanent beds actually available to guests.

      Use of rooms is based on the number of the so-called room-days (i.e. the total number of days on which the room was occupied by at least one guest).

Table 18-12. Foreign guests at tourism accommodation establishments

      Foreign guests are foreign visitors (by country of permanent residence) who spend at least one night at tourism accommodation establishments.

       As a rule, the average length of stay (days) is higher by one unit than the average number of overnight stays.

Table 18-13. Longer trips made for the purpose of spending leisure

       Data on travelling are measured once a year on the sample of households included in the sample survey on household budgets statistics. Individual members of the households aged 15 and over are asked to give information on longer trips they made in the reference year for the purpose of spending holidays and leisure outside their usual place of residence. Data obtained through the sample survey are grossed up to 15+ population by means of coefficients.

       The total number of the trips made does not include business trips, hospital stays, balneological stays at spas prescribed by the medical doctor in the framework of comprehensive balneotherapy.

       Overnight stays included in the longer trip refer to accommodation for the night at collective accommodation establishments or accommodation in private, paid or unpaid. Included are also stays at own or relatives and friends' weekend houses or in the open air, as well as accommodation in means of transport, provided it occurs throughout the trip made. The number of overnight stays excludes nights spent in means of transport when the traveller is taken to/from the destination of the trip.

Table 18-14 and 18-15. Arrivals of foreign visitors by country and by type of transport

       Foreign visitors are all persons, who arrived in the Czech Republic (i.e., tourists, same-day visitors or persons in transit).

       The data on the arrivals of foreign visitors in the Czech Republic are measured at border crossings, where the foreign visitors are classified to three groups. German, Austrian, Polish, and Slovak nationals are registered as citizens of the neighbouring states, provided they cross the section of the Czech state border common with the border of their countries. If they come via the other sections of the state border, they are placed in the second group, among visitors from other countries without visa duty. The third group includes visitors from countries with visa duty.

       The number of arrivals of foreign visitors from the neighbouring countries and from other countries without visa duty is established at the road and railway border crossings by expert guess. As for the air transport and foreign visitors from countries with visa duty, the figures on the number of foreign visitors are accurate.

       The time series of the basic indicators is not fully comparable. Since the year 2000, available administrative sources have been used to identify activities of enterprises. This resulted in changes in the indicator values published before.

       The tables on the capacity of the accommodation establishments and numbers of guests in them, released in the Statistical Yearbooks of previous years, listed data referring to all of the accommodation establishments recorded in the CZSO Register of Accommodation Establishments, including the category of individual accommodation (in private). Since 2002, this category has not been measured due to the capacity demands of the parts of the regular surveys. This decision was made pursuant to the EU obligatory requirements for tourism statistics. Starting in 2003, the Statistical Yearbook of the CR releases all data for collective accommodation establishments only, also retrospectively.

       In-depth information on tourism is available in the following CZSO publications brought out in accordance with the CZSO Catalogue of Publications 2003 (group 9 - SERVICES, subgroup 92 - Tourism):

• "International Tourism" (Czech-English version) - monthly, on the 40th calendar day following the last day of the reference month
• "Guests at Collective Tourist Accommodation Establishments - Basic Results" (Czech-English version) - quarterly, June, September, December 2003, and March 2004
• "Guests at Collective Tourist Accommodation Establishments - Detailed Results" (Czech-English version) - quarterly, June and October 2003, January and April 2004
• "Capacity of Collective Tourist Accommodation Establishments" (Czech-English version) - in February 2003
• "Results of the Survey of Domestic and Outbound Tourism" (Czech-English version) - quarterly, July and October 2003, January and April 2004.