A. TRADE, HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS
The economic entity of the survey is an enterprise whose principal activity belongs to the following industries of the CZ-NACE:
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. Notes on tables Tables 18-1. to 18-5. Basic indicators on trade and on hotels and restaurants The data published for all of the three years (2000, 2001 and 2002) were taken from the results obtained by the processing of the CZSO’s annual statistical questionnaires filled out by enterprises whose principal activities come under trade (CZ-NACE divisions 50, 51, 52) and hotels and restaurants (CZ-NACE division 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 Market and 16A. Industry, respectively. Table 18-6. Sales index of trade, hotels and restaurants The calculation of the index is based on the results obtained by the processing of monthly statistical questionnaires and the results of grossing up to universe - i.e. to all units incorporated in the Business Register which come under the above-mentioned CZ-NACE divisions. The grossing-up results respect findings on the inactivity of enterprises. 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 divisions 50, 52, 55 (the index is not calculated for CZ-NACE division coded 51).
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Detailed data and information on the development of the basic indicators on trade and hotels and restaurants are given in the following CZSO publications brought out according to the Catalogue of Publications 2004 (group 9 - SERVICES, subgroup 91 – Retail Trade, Hotels and Restaurants): and in comprehensive publications such as the monthly “CZSO News” (Czech-English version) and the quarterly "Bulletin ČSÚ".
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 18-7. 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 the number of places for tents, caravans and campers. 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. In 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. Since 1996, the statistical surveys have been based on the use of a special register of accommodation establishments. Between 1998 and 2002, all collective accommodation establishments were measured for capacity and 30% of them sampled for output. Since 2003, the output of these establishments has been measured in an exhaustive manner. For the year 1995 the table only lists data from the questionnaires submitted and processed. Since 2000, grossed up data have been shown – they are sums of the data processed from submitted questionnaires and imputed data on the accommodation establishments that either failed to supply completed questionnaires or had not been included into the sample. Since 2003, estimates have been only made for the accommodation establishments from which no completed questionnaire was obtained. Table 18-9. 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 18-10. Foreign guests at collective tourist 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 18-11. Longer trips made for the purpose of spending leisure Before 2003, data on travelling were measured once a year on the sample of households included in the sample survey on household budgets statistics. Since 2003, data on outbound and domestic tourism of Czech citizens are measured quarterly in accordance with international recommendations. Their source is a separate tourism sample survey (TSS). The data are measured on one selected household member aged 15+ who usually resides in a dwelling under the survey. In addition to other indicators on tourism, he/she is mainly asked about the destination of longer trips (trips with 4 or more successive overnight stays) he/she made in the reference year for the purpose of spending holidays and leisure outside their usual environment: permanent or temporary place of residence, workplace, school, etc.). The survey is based on a two-stage random sample, the first-stage sample unit being an enumeration district and the second-stage one a particular dwelling chosen. The collected data are grossed up to 15+ population of the CR by means of coefficients. The results of the survey are published quarterly. The total number of the longer trips does not include business trips, hospital stays, curative stays at spas prescribed by the medical doctor in the framework of comprehensive balneotherapy, etc. The overnight stays included in the longer trips refer to accommodation for the night at collective accommodation establishments or accommodation in private, paid or unpaid, i.e. they also include stays at own weekend houses or with relatives and friends or in the open air, as well as accommodation in means of transport during the trip, etc. Table 18-12. Arrivals of foreign visitors 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. Table 18-13. Departures of Czech citizens abroad Data on the departures of Czech citizens abroad are measured at border crossings. The number of departures via road and railway borders crossings is established by expert guess, while exact figures are given for departures by plane.
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The time series of the basic indicators is not fully comparable as far as methodology is concerned. Since 2000, available administrative sources have been used to identify activities of enterprises, which changed the indicator values published before.
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More detailed information on tourism is available in the following CZSO publications brought out in accordance with the CZSO Catalogue of Publications 2004 (group 9 - SERVICES, subgroup 92 - Tourism): - “Foreign Tourism” (Czech-English version) – monthly, 40th calendar day following the reference month
- “Guests at Collective Tourist Accommodation Establishments – Basic Results” (Czech-English version) – quarterly, July, September, December 2004, and March 2005 - “Guests at Collective Tourist Accommodation Establishments – Detailed Results” (Czech-English version) – quarterly, July and October 2004, January and April 2005 - “Capacity of Collective Tourist Accommodation Establishments” (Czech-English version) – September 2004 - “Domestic and Outbound Tourism” (Czech-English version) – quarterly, July and October 2004, January and April 2005. | 
