Tourism - 2 quarter 2014

Q2 2014, the number of guests in collective accommodation establishments increased by 1.8% year-on-year and the number of overnight stays by 0.4%. Domestic tourists decreased in number by 0.1%, but the number of foreigners went up by 3.4%.

The number of overnight stays in collective accommodation establishments totaled 10.5 million in Q2 2014; this was by 0.4% up than in the same period of the previous year. The number of residents went up by 1.4%; domestic guests went on the contrary down by 0.9%. While the number of nights in hotels increased by 3.5%, pensions showed y-o-y decrease by 4.2%. Apart from hotels, y-o-y increase was recorded by camps (by 1.9%) due to good weather. From regional point of view, Pardubicky region (+13.8%), Moravskoslezsky (+7.9%) or Jihomoravsky region (+7.3%) were successful. On the contrary there was y-o-y decrease in 5 regions, e.g. the Capital Prague by 2.6%.

A total of 4.0 million guests arrived in collective accommodation establishments during the surveyed period; this was y-o-y increase by 1.8%. The number of domestic guests decreased mildly (by 0.1%), but the number of foreign tourists went up by 3.4% y-o-y. Guests favored accommodation in hotels. There were in total 3.1 million guests there, which was by 5.4% more than a year ago. Occupancy of pensions went down by 4.4% y-o-y; on the contrary camps attracted more guests by 3.2%. From the regional point of view, an increase was shown in 9 out of 14 regions of the Czech Republic. The highest increase was in Pardubicky region (by 14.5%) as well as in Kralovehradecky region (by 12.5%). Lower occupancy than last year reported accommodation establishments in five regions. The highest decrease was shown in Zlinsky region (by 3.7%) and Olomoucky region (by 1.5%).

The highest number of foreign guests (by nationality) came as usual from Germany. Germans accounted for 19.3% of foreign guests at surveyed establishments. Compared to the same period of previous year their number went up by 10.5%. In contrast the second largest group of foreign guests – tourists from Russia – showed y-o-y drop by 14.1%, which represented a decrease by 30.2 thousand guests. Third place took Slovakia (133 thousand arrivals, y-o-y increase by 13.1%). Also Austrians and guest from China increased their numbers (by 14.4% and by 22.0% respectively) compared to the same period of last year. From top ten countries, from which the most foreign guests arrived, there was a decrease in the number of guests, apart from Russian federation, from France and Italy.

Rooms of hotels and pensions were used from 47.4%; this was by 4.0 p.p. more than in the same period of the previous year. Five-star hotels reached the highest utilisation from all categories of hotels (71.1%); this represented an increase by 3.3 p.p. Utilisation of four-star hotels went also up by 4.8 p.p. to the level of 63.2%.

An average length of stay in surveyed establishments was 2.6 nights in Q2 2014. Slight difference was visible between the length of stay of domestic and foreign guests – residents spent in average 2.5 nights, foreigners 2.7 nights.

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Responsible head: Marie Boušková, phone (+420) 274052935 , 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 at collective accommodation establishments
End of data collection: 25 July 2014
End of data processing: 30 July 2014
Related publications: Data for particular quarters from 2000 are available in time series
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