Tourism - 3 quarter

The decline in the number of guests (by 1.7%) as well as their overnight stays (by 2.0%) went on in Q3 2009 but it was lower than in previous quarter. A slow-down of the decrease was particularly affected of resident guests; this category recorded an increase both in the number of guests (by 1.7%) as well as the number of overnight stays (by 3.0% and 2.9%, respectively).
The number of overnight stays at collective accommodation establishments totalled 14.0 million in Q3 2009; this was by 2.0% less than in the same period of the previous year. The number of overnight stays of non-resident guests decreased by 8.1% and the number of overnight stays of residents was by 2.9% higher. The sharpest increase was reported at four-star hotels (by 7.5%) and this category only showed increase in the number of overnight stays of both foreign and domestic guests. There was an increase of the number of overnight stays in campsites (by 6.9%) and in holiday dwellings and hostels for tourists (by 7.7%), but this was due to quite sharp downfall in these categories in the same quarter of the year 2008 (the level of Q3 2007 have not been reached even this year). From regional point of view the number of overnight stays went up the most in regions Liberecky (by 13.6%) and Plzensky (by 7.7%), the highest decrease was shown in Ustecky (by 7.3%) and Pardubicky (by 6.3%) region.

In Q3 2009, a total of 4.3 million guests arrived at collective accommodation establishments; this was 1.7% down on Q3 2008. The number of non-residents was by 6.6% less and the number of residents by 3.0% less. Five and four-star hotels reported for the time being the highest number of guests since the year 2000 while boarding houses recorded the lowest number of guests in that period. Domestic tourists started to return to cheaper type of accommodation in campsites and holiday dwellings. Higher number of tourists arrived to regions Liberecky, Plzensky and Jihocesky compared to the same period of previous year; lower number of tourists came to Olomoucky and Jihomoravsky region.

In spite of the long-term decrease, guests from Germany kept the primacy in both the number of guest and overnight stays. From top ten countries, an increase was shown only of tourists from Slovakia (arrivals of guests by +5.8% and overnight stays by +1.8%). A deep drop has been continuously reported of tourists from Russia; whose number of guests decreased by 25.2% and of overnight stays by 22.8%.

At spa accommodation establishments the number of guests totalled 183 thousand; this was 0.8% down year-on-year. While the number of non-resident guests went up by 4.0%, the number of resident guests decreased by 6.1%. The same trend was recorded in terms of overnight stays (decrease by 2.3%, of which non-residents by 10.9% down but residents by 3.3% up).

Net use of rooms of hotels and similar establishments was 47.3% in Q3 2009 (i.e. by 1.6 p.p. less than in the same period of the previous year), of which hotels were occupied by 50.2% and boarding houses by 33.2%. All categories of hotels reported a decrease, the highest five-star hotels (by 8.1 p.p.). On the contrary, boarding houses reported year-on-year increase by 1.6 p.p. From point of view of regions the most used capacity was in Karlovarsky region (60.9%) and in Prague (60.6%); the lowest in Ustecky region (30.8%) and Vysocina (31.8%). The highest year-on-year drop was reported in Jihomoravsky (by 7.2%) and Olomoucky (by 4.2%) region. An improvement was shown in Liberecky (+2.4%), Plzenky (+1.3%) and Jihomoravsky (+0.6%) region.

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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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Contact: Hellerová Alena, phone: (+420) 274052921, E-mail: alena.hellerova@csu.gov.cz
Data source: CZSO direct survey in collective accommodation establishments
End of data collection: 22 October 2009
End of data processing: 6 November 2009
The data are preliminary; final data for all quarters of 2009 will be known in February 2010.
Quarterly data since 2000 are available in time serie s ( /produkty/cru_ts ).
Data for year 2008 were revised on 20 March 2009.