Tourism - 2. quarter of 2015

The number of overnight stays in collective accommodation establishments totaled 11.5 million in Q2 2015; this was by 7.8% up than in the same period of the previous year. The number of nights of residents went up by 10.0%; foreign guests spent by 6.1% more nights in accommodation establishments. Year-on-year increase was recorded by all categories of accommodation establishment. The number of overnight stays in hotels went up by 7.7%, in pensions by 7.0% and in other collective establishments by 8.7%. From regional point of view, a progress was reported especially from Moravskoslezsky region (+16.5%), Pardubicky region (+15.4%) or Plzensky region (+14.2%). The lowest growth showed accommodation establishments in Karlovarsky region (+0.4%).

A total of 4.4 million guests arrived in collective accommodation establishments during the surveyed period; this was y-o-y increase by 9.3%. Both domestic and foreign guests went up (by 10.4% and by 8.4% respectively). Occupancy of hotels increased by 9.9% y-o-y (3.3 million guests), in pension there were more tourists by 9.6% and for instance campsites welcomed on the beginning of the summer season by 10.5% more guests than the last year. From the regional point of view, the increase was shown in all regions of the Czech Republic. The highest increase was in Kralovehradecky region (by 15.5%) as well as in Plzensky and Zlinsky region (both by 14.3%). The lowest y-o-y growth (by 2.5%) was reported from Jihomoravsky region due to the decrease of clients from abroad (by 2.7%), but the number of domestic tourists went up by 5.5%.

The highest number of foreign guests (by nationality) came as usual from Germany. Germans accounted for 20.1% of foreign guests at surveyed establishments (481 thousand arrivals). Compared to the same period of previous year their number went up by 14.8%. The second largest group of foreign guests was visitors from the United States of America (156 thousand) with y-o-y increase by 15.1%. The third place was taken by Slovakia (150 thousand arrivals, y-o-y increase by 16.1%). The increase in arrivals from Russia continued in the second quarter. Russians (y-o-y decrease by 34.4%) took fifth place right behind arrivals from Poland (+3.8%). From top ten countries, the highest growth was shown by visitors from China (+46.9%), who compared to the first quarter jumped in the number of guests their regional neighbors from South Korea.

Spa accommodation establishments visited 193 thousand guests in surveyed period; this was 0.7% more than the same period of last year; the number of nights went up by 0.7% too, thanks to domestic clients. The number of domestic guest went up by 6.0%, the number of their night by 13.6%. On the contrary, the number of non-residents as well as the number of their night decreased by 5.7% and by 15.2% respectively. In Karlovarsky region, which is constantly showing the share of more than a half of the number of arrivals as well as overnight stays in spa establishments, there was an increase if residents by 28.2%; the number of non-residents on the contrary dropped by 5.7%.

An average length of stay in surveyed establishments was 2.6 nights in Q2 2015, which was equal for domestic and foreign guests.

Notes

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: 28 July 2015
End of data processing: 31 July 2015
Related publications: https://csu.gov.cz/tourism_ekon
The next News Release will be published: 7 November 2015