Tourism - 1st quarter of 2011

Q1 2011, the number of guests’ overnight stays in collective accommodation establishments increased by 6.5% year-on-year, of which foreign visitors by 7.1% and domestic by 5.8%. In total, more guests arrived by 8.5%, of which domestic by 10.0% and foreign by 7.0%.
The number of overnight stays in collective accommodation establishments totalled 7.4 million in Q4 2010; this was by 6.5% more than in the same period of the previous year. Non-residents contributed more (their number of overnight stays increased by 7.1%) to the growth than residents (the growth by 5.8%). Remarkable year-on-year growth was recorded by lower category of hotels – one-star hotels by 20.5% and hotels garni by 18.0%, in five-star hotels it was only by 3.4% and in boarding houses even only by 0.2%.

From regional point of view, the highest increase was shown by accommodation establishments in Vysocina in particular due to an organisation of junior world championship in biathlon in Nove Mesto na Morave. Remarkable increase, over ten per cent, was also shown in region Ustecky (by 19.0%) and regions Karlovarsky (by 10.4%), Liberecky (by 10.2%) and Moravskoslezsky (by 10.0%). Only in Jihocesky region less guests spent overnight compared to the same periods of the year 2010; this was by 0.1%.

A total of 2.4 million guests arrived in observed establishments; this was 8.5% up on Q1 2011. In contras to the number of overnight stays, the number of domestic guests went up more (10.0%) compared to foreigners (7.0%). Concerning a breakdown by the category of accommodation establishment, the number of arrivals copied a development of already mentioned number of overnight stays. The highest growth was in one-star hotels by 23.0% and hotels garni by 19.3%. Similar increase recorded also two-star hotels by 16.3%. Arrivals of visitors in five-star hotels increased year-on-year by 2.2%, in boarding houses by 4.0%.

From the regional point of view, there was an increase in all regions; the highest in Ustecky (by 25.1%), Karlovarsky (by 19.4%) and Pardubicky (by 15.0%). The smallest increase was shown in regions Jihomoravsky (by 4.3%) and Kralovehradecky (by 5.0%). The highest number of guests came as usually from Germany (265 thousand); this was by 2.2 % more than last year. The second of the most numerous groups of foreign tourists were guests from Russia (113 thousand) with a year-on-year growth in arrivals by 42.0%. Among the first ten countries, from which foreign guests arrive the most often, a remarkable increase was shown by guests from France (by 23.3%), Slovakia (14.7%) and Netherlands (by 12.5%); on contrary there were less guests from Italy and the Great Britain (by 7.4% and 7.3% respectively).

In spa accommodation establishments the number of overnight stays totalled 1.3 million; this was 2.8% up year-on-year. The number of non-residents went up by 4.8% and domestic by 1.1%. There were 153 thousand arrivals of guests in accommodation establishments; this was by 7.5% more than in the same period of last year. The number of residents went up by 7.7% and non-residents by 7.3%. Karlovarsky Region, with the share more than half in occupancy of spa establishments, the number of overnight stays of domestic guests went up by 16.9% and foreigners by 5.5%. Also the number of arrivals of residents went up by 26.6% and non-residents by 7.3%.

Rooms of hotels and similar establishments were used from 32.8% in Q1 2011; this was by 0.4 p.p. more than in the same period of the previous year. Four-star hotels with the highest utilisation from all hotels (40.9%) increased their usage by 0.7 p.p.; an utilisation of five-star hotels remained at the same level 37.0%. The decrease by 1.0 p.p. recorded other hotels and boarding houses, where use of rooms is traditionally the lowest (22.5%).

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Methodological note:
¹ ) Data on guests at collective tourist accommodation establishments are obtained from the monthly CR1-12 sample survey and the quarterly CR2-04 survey. Data mentioned are sums of the data processed from submitted questionnaires and imputed data on the accommodation establishments that failed to report. Net use of room is the number of overnight stays in a particular period divided by the number of room-days (stated as a percentage).

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Responsible head: Marie Boušková, phone (+420) 27405293 5, e-mail: marie.bouskova@csu.gov.cz
Contact person: Pavel Vančura, phone (+420) 274052096, e-mail: pavel.vancura@csu.gov.cz
Method of data acquisition: direct surveys of the CZSO (SP1-12)
End of data collection: 26 April 2011
End of data processing: 2 May 2011
Data for 1 ^st quarter 2011 are preliminary; final data for all months of 2011 will be available in May 2012 at the latest.
Quarterly data since 2000 are available in time series.
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