Tourism - 4. quarter of 2025

The number of overnight stays of guests in collective accommodation establishments increased by 4.6%, year-on-year, to the total of 12.2 million nights in the Q4 2025. Residents spent in Czechia 5.5 million nights and foreign clientele spent there 6.7 million nights. The number of overnight stays of domestic guests increased by 3.3% and non-residents reported an increase by 5.6%.

“In the Q4 2025, 5.2 million guests in total arrived in collective accommodation establishments, which was a year-on-year increase in the number of arrivals by 4.1%. The number of residents who accommodated in Czechia increased by 3.4% and the number of non-residents increased by almost 5%,” Roman Mikula, Head of the Tourism and Environmental Statistics Unit of the Czech Statistical Office (CZSO), stated.

In a hotel-type accommodation, 4.2 million guests arrived in the Q4 2025, which was a year-on-year increase in the number of guests by 3.6%. The number of overnight stays in this type of accommodation increased by 4.7% and guests spent there 9.4 million nights. The highest increase in the number of guests was reported by five-star hotels, in which mostly foreign clientele stays. However, other categories of hotels also recorded growth, namely in the number of guests as well as in the number of overnight stays. Boarding houses, in which, on the other hand, 80% of guests from Czechia accommodates, also reported an increase in both the number of arrivals and overnight stays. In the Q4 2025, over half a million of guests came to this type of accommodation; they spent there 1.1 million nights. A growth of both main indicators was recorded in domestic as well as foreign clientele.

In terms of comparison of Regions, in the Q4 2025, compared to the corresponding period of the previous year, the total number of guests in collective accommodation establishments increased in all Regions of Czechia. The highest increase in the number of arrivals was recorded in the Olomoucký Region, in the Jihočeský Region, and in the Liberecký Region. Domestic guests reported growth in all Regions except for the Zlínský Region and the Královéhradecký Region, in which the number of arrivals of residents decreased compared to the corresponding period of the previous year. The number of non-residents in collective accommodation establishments only decreased in the Plzeňský Region; in other Regions, numbers of foreign guests increased. The number of overnight stays in total only decreased in the Královéhradecký Region; in other Regions, the number of overnight stays increased.  

Compared to the corresponding period of the previous year, by 4.7% more foreign guests (non-residents; by citizenship) accommodated in collective accommodation establishments in the Q4 2025. As usual, the highest number of guests came from Germany (570 thousand); however, a year-on-year decrease in the number of their arrivals (by 2.6%) as well as in the number of overnight stays (by 2.3%) was recorded. Over 150 thousand non-residents also arrived from Slovakia, Poland, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Norther Ireland. The highest year-on-year increment in the number of guests was recorded in non-residents from Israel.

Development in 2025

For the whole year 2025, 23.6 million guests arrived in collective accommodation establishments in Czechia; they spent there 59.1 million nights. In Czechia, 12.6 million of domestic guests accommodated, which was a year-on-year increase by 2.5%. Residents spent there by 2.0% more nights compared to the corresponding period of the previous year and the number of overnight stays of domestic guests increased to 32.4 million nights. Last year, 10.9 million non-residents arrived in Czech accommodation establishments and foreign guests spent there 26.8 million nights. Year-on-year, an increase of both was reported: the number of arrivals (by 4.1%) and the number of overnight stays (by 5.0%).

Already for the second successive year, the number of guests in collective accommodation establishments was above the level of the pre-COVID year of 2019, namely as for the number of accommodated guests as well as the number of overnight stays. By 1.6 million more tourists accommodated in Czechia and the number of overnight stays was by 2.1 million nights higher compared to the year 2019.