Tourism - 4th quarter 2009

In Q4 2009 a year-on-year decline in the number of guests (by 6.0%) as well as in the number of overnight stays (by 7.4%) deepened compared to previous quarter and approached the development in Q1 and Q2 2009. Higher decrease in arrivals of guests as well as overnight stays was surveyed for domestic guests (by 9.1% and 8.1% respectively) than for non-residents (by 3.5% and 6.9% respectively).
The number of overnight stays at collective accommodation establishments totalled 6.8 million in Q4 2009; this was by 7.4% less than in the same period of the previous year. The number of overnight stays of non-resident guests decreased by 6.9%, domestic guests by 8.1%. A large increase of overnight stays at four-star hotels (by 7.6%) and a slighter increase in five-star hotels (by 3.9%) didn’t manage to solve a dramatic decrease at other categories of collective accommodation establishments. From regional point of view the number of overnight stays went down, the most in regions Kralovehradecky (by 15.9%) and Liberecky (by 14.8%); there was no increase in any region.

In Q4 2009, a total of 2.4 million guests arrived at collective accommodation establishments; this was 6.0% down on Q4 2008. The number of non-residents was by 3.5% less and the number of residents by 9.1% less. Like in case of the number of overnight stays, only five and four-star hotels reported an increase of the number of guests of both non-residents and residents. As for regional breakdown, higher number of tourists arrived to the capital Prague (by 0.8%) and Karlovarsky region (by 1.0%); this was influenced by higher share of above mentioned hotels in these regions. Non-residents came more not only to these regions, but also to Jihocesky region and Vysocina.

In top ten countries, an increase in the number of guests was shown by tourists from Austria by 17.3%, Spain by 11.8% and Italy by 1.3%; the number of overnight stays went up for tourists from Spain (by 9.6%) and France (by 0.7%). A deep drop has been continuously reported of tourists from Russia (23.1% less arrivals and 24.1% less overnight stays) and Great Britain (13.9% and 13.5% respectively).

At spa accommodation establishments the number of guests totalled 154 thousand in Q4 2009; this was 3.0% down year-on-year; the number of resident guests went down by 0.3% and the number of non-resident guests by 5.4%. The number of overnight of residents stays went even up by 2.8% and non-residents decreased by 10.8%.

Net use of rooms of hotels and similar establishments was 35.8% in Q4 2009 (i.e. by 2.3 p.p. less than in the same period of the previous year), of which hotels were occupied by 38.8% and boarding houses by 16.2%.
In the whole year 2009 the number of overnight stays at collective accommodation establishments went down by 6.0%, the number of guests by 5.7%. Although there was a higher decrease in overnight stays, the average number of overnight stays at collective accommodation establishments remained the same as in 2008. Nevertheless, from long-term view it slowly decreases, compared to 2001 it was lower by 0.4 nights (non-residents by 0.3 nights and residents by 0.5 nights).

The highest downfall in the number of overnight stays was recorded in Ustecky region (by 13.8%). Only one region – Liberecky – showed an increase in the number of overnight stays (by 1.2%) due to residents (by 7.6%). Higher number of overnight stays of residents was also reported in regions Moravskoslezsky, Kralovehradecky, Karlovarsky and Plzensky. The number of overnight stays of non-residents went down in all regions, the most (by one quarter) in Ustecky 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: 29.1.2010
End of data processing: 6.2.2010
The data are preliminary; final data for all quarters of 2009 will be known in May 2010.
Quarterly data since 2000 are available in time series ( /produkty/cru_ts ).