Tourism - 2. quarter of 2018

In the Q2 2018, the number of guests in collective accommodation establishments increased by 4.6%, year-on-year (y-o-y). The number of overnight stays increased by 2.2%, y-o-y. The number of guests in collective accommodation establishments is thus increasing for the fifth successive year already.

The number of overnight stays of guests in collective accommodation establishments reached 13.4 million nights in total in the Q2 2018; it was by 2.2% more than in the corresponding period of the previous year. The number of overnight stays of residents increased by 5.7%; however, non-residents spent in accommodation establishments by 0.8% less nights than last year. From the total number of nights, 67% were spent in hotels, 9% in boarding houses, and 24% in tourist campsites, holiday dwellings, and hostels. As for the regional breakdown, the highest number of overnight stays took place in Prague, in which, however, almost 9 out of 10 nights were spent by non-residents. Residents spent the most nights in the Jihomoravský Region, the Jihočeský Region, and the Královéhradecký Region.

In total, 5.5 million guests arrived to collective accommodation establishments during the reference period; it was 4.6% up, y-o-y. The number of both domestic guests as well as guests from abroad increased (+7.9% and +1.6%, respectively). In the year-on-year comparison, hotels recorded a 3.0% increase in the number of guests (+3.9 million guests); boarding houses (pensions) accommodated by 5.1% more persons, and tourist campsites welcomed in the beginning of the summer season by 22.1% more guests than last year. In terms of regional comparison, there was an increase of guests in all Regions of the CR. The highest y-o-y increase of guests in total was recorded in the Moravskoslezský Region (+10.5%), the Středočeský Region (+10.2%), and in the Jihočeský Region (+10.0%). From the point of view of a domestic guest, as for arrivals, the Karlovarský Region (+14.0%), the Hl. m. Praha Region (+13.3%), and the Středočeský Region (+11.8%) were the most attractive.

The highest number of foreign guests (by citizenship) came, as usually, from Germany. German guests made almost a fifth of foreign clients in the surveyed accommodation establishments (535 thousand arrivals). Compared to the corresponding period of the previous year, their number decreased by 0.3%. The second most numerous group in the Q2 2018 consisted of visitors from Slovakia (194 thousand) with a y-o-y increase by 9.2%. Guests from China ranked third (185 thousand arrivals; +27.8%, y-o-y). Also our neighbours from the north, Poland, showed an increased interest in accommodation in the surveyed establishments (+10.5%) as well as guests from over the ocean, the United States of America (+2.7%). On the contrary, the demand dropped as for arrivals from the Russian Federation (-1.7%), the Republic of Korea (-6.2%), and Austria (-1.3%).

Spa accommodation establishments were visited in the surveyed period by 230 thousand guests in total, i.e. by 3.7% more than in the corresponding period of the previous year. However, the number of overnight stays decreased by 2.0%. The number of nights spent in Czech and Moravian spas dropped both among residents (-0.5%) and, most of all, among foreign guests (-4.7%). Stays in spas were shortened to 6.8 nights in average spent by non-residents and to 9.8 nights, for which domestic guests stayed in spa resort establishments.

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Responsible head at the CZSO: Marie Boušková, Director of the Services Statistics Department, phone number (+420) 274 052 935,
e-mail: marie.bouskova@csu.gov.cz
Contact person: Pavel Vančura, Head of the Tourism Statistics Unit, phone number (+420) 274 052 096, e-mail: pavel.vancura@csu.gov.cz
Method of data acquisition: direct surveys of the CZSO in collective accommodation establishments
End of data collection: 30 July 2018
End of data processing: 31 July 2018
Related data set: https://csu.gov.cz/produkty/cru_ts
Next News Release will be published on: 7 November 2018