Tourism - 2nd quarter of 2019
Number of guests from abroad and from the Czech Republic increased with the same growth rate
The number of overnight stays of guests in collective accommodation establishments reached 14.0 million nights in total in the Q2 2019, which was by 3.8% more compared to the corresponding period of the previous year. The number of overnight stays of guests from abroad increased by 3.9%, y-o-y; guests from the CR spent in accommodation establishments in the CR by 3.8% more nights. 67% of the total number of nights were spent in hotels, 10% in boarding houses, and 23% in tourist campsites and in holiday dwellings and hostels. As for the regional breakdown, the highest number of overnight stays was in Prague; however, almost 9 out of 10 nights were spent there by non-residents. Guests from the Czech Republic spent the highest number of nights in the Jihočeský Region, in the Jihomoravský Region, and in the Královéhradecký Region.
In total, 5.8 million guests arrived to collective accommodation establishments during the surveyed period; it was 4.9% up, y-o-y. The number of both guests (from the Czech Republic and from abroad) increased (by 4.9% and 4.8%, respectively). The number of guests in hotels increased by 4.7%, y-o-y (by 4.1 million guests), boarding houses accommodated by 7.4% more persons, and campsites welcomed in the beginning of the summer season by 4.7% more guests than in the previous year. In terms of regional comparison, the number of guests increased in 13 regions of the Czech Republic. The highest y-o-y increase of guests in total was in the Liberecký Region and in the Olomoucký Region (both were 12.4% up) and in the Pardubický Region (11.0% up). The number of guests dropped only in the Vysočina Region (−1.4%), of which the decrease in the number of residents was 2.2%.
The highest number of non-residents (foreign guests by citizenship) came, as usually, from Germany. In the surveyed establishments, Germans made almost a fifth of guests from abroad (571 thousand arrivals). Compared to the corresponding period of the previous year, their number increased by 7.7%. The second most numerous group of visitors came from Slovakia in the Q2 2019 (200 thousand); it was 4.5% up, y-o-y. Guests from Poland ranked third (187 thousand arrivals; 4.8% up, y-o-y). Dynamics of arrivals from China (compared to the last year’s double-digit increase) decreased in the Q2 2019; only by 1.1% more guests came to Czech and Moravian establishments in that period compared to the corresponding period of the previous year. On the contrary, a lower number of guests came from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (−1.3%) and from South Korea (−4.4percentage).
Spa accommodation establishments were visited in the surveyed period by 238 thousand guests, i.e. by 7.3% more than in the corresponding period of the previous year. The number of overnight stays also increased; it was by 1.8% more. The number of arrivals as well as the number of nights spent in Czech and Moravian spas was higher as for both residents and non-residents, year-on-year. In the Karlovarský Region, there were by 10.5% more spa guests.
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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@czso.cz
Contact person: Pavel Vančura, Head of the Tourism Statistics Unit, phone number (+420) 274 052 096, e-mail: pavel.vancura@czso.cz
Method of data acquisition: direct surveys of the CZSO in collective accommodation establishments
End of data collection: 29 July 2019
End of data processing: 31 July 2019
Related data set: https://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/cru_ts
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Published: 08.08.2019
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