Services - 1. quarter of 2025

“Sales in services increased by 3%, year-on-year, in the first quarter of 2025. All CZ-NACE sections of services contributed to the growth except for accommodation and food service activities, in which there was a decrease by 1.1%,” Tomáš Harák, Head of the Trade, Services, and Environmental Statistics Data Support Unit of the Czech Statistical Office (CZSO), says.

Quarter-on-quarter, seasonally adjusted sales in services¹⁾ increased in real terms by 1.7%, in the Q1. All industries of services recorded a sales growth except for the CZ-NACE section of accommodation and food service activities, in which sales decreased by 0.6%.

In the year-on-year comparison, sales adjusted for calendar effects increased by 3.0%. The mose marked increase was recorded in the section of professional, scientific and technical activities.

Development in individual industries of services (CZ-NACE sections) was as follows:

• Sales in transportation and storage increased by 2.6%. The most marked increase in sales was in water transport (by 5.6%). Higher sales were also reported by warehousing and support activities for transportation (by 4.7%), postal and courier activities (by 2.4%), and land transport and transport via pipelines (by 1.4%). Air transport also recorded a sales increase (by 0.2%).  
• Sales in accommodation and food service activities decreased by 1.1%. Sales in accommodation decreased by 3.0%; in food and beverage service activities they decreased by 0.7%.
• Sales in information and communication increased by 4.3%. The growth was mainly achieved thanks to the development in telecommunications (an increase by 11.0%). Sales also increased in publishing activities (by 7.7%) and information service activities (by 6.1%), which include, for example, data processing, hosting and related activities; web portals. Higher sales were also reported by computer programming, consultancy and related activities (by 1.6%) and by music and motion picture activities (by 0.5%). The only decreasing industry in this section was programming and broadcasting activities (by 13.4%).
• Sales in real estate activities increased by 1.9%, y-o-y.
• In professional, scientific and technical activities²⁾ sales increased by 4.7%. The highest contribution to the growth of the entire section was thanks to activities of head offices; management consultancy activities, in which sales increased by 17.1%. An increase of sales by 4.9% was recorded by other professional, scientific and technical activities. Legal and accounting activities increased by 4.7% and higher sales were also in architectural and engineering activities; technical testing and analysis (by 1.5%) and in advertising and market research (by 0.6%).
• In administrative and support service activities, sales increased by 1.1%. The highest increase of sales was recorded by office administrative, office support and other business support activities, namely by 6.6%. Sales also increased in rental and leasing activities (by 4.9%), travel agency, tour operator and other reservation service and related activities (by 2.5%), and services to buildings and landscape activities (by 1.5%). On the other hand, a decrease of sales was recorded by employment activities (by 10.2%) and also by security and investigation activities (by 5.3%).