Tourism - 2. quarter of 2021
Number of guests rebounded
The number of overnight stays of guests in collective accommodation establishments reached 4.2 million nights in total in the Q2 2021, which was by 56.1% more compared to the corresponding period of the previous year. The number of overnight stays of guests from abroad increased by 108.5%, y-o-y; guests from the Czech Republic (CR) spent in accommodation establishments in the CR by 50.3% more nights compared to the previous year. From the total number of overnight stays, 53% were spent in hotels, 17% in boarding houses, and 8% in tourist campsites.
In total, 1.6 million guests arrived to collective accommodation establishments during the surveyed period, which was an increase by 51.3%, y-o-y. The number of both (guests from the Czech Republic and from abroad) increased (by 47.4% and 79.1%, respectively). The number of guests in hotels increased by 64.1%, y-o-y (906 thousand guests), boarding houses accommodated by 52.4% more persons, and tourist campsites welcomed in the beginning of the summer season by 30.3% more guests than in the previous year. In terms of regional comparison, the number of guests increased in all Regions of the Czech Republic. The highest year-on-year increment of guests in total was reported by the Hl. m. Praha Region (Prague; by 90.0%) and by the Karlovarský Region (by 72.0%).
The highest number of foreign guests (non-residents; by citizenship) came from Germany. In the surveyed accommodation establishments, Germans made a fourth of guests from abroad (57 thousand of arrivals). Compared to the corresponding period of the previous year, their number increased by 14.5%. The second most numerous group of visitors came from Slovakia in the Q2 2021 (53 thousand); it was 75.6% up, y-o-y. Guests from Poland ranked third (20 thousand arrivals; 147.3% up, y-o-y). However, numbers of guests from abroad are still low, they do not reach even a tenth of the number of arrivals from the period before the coronavirus pandemic in 2019.
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Responsible head at the CZSO: Marie Boušková, Director of the Trade, Transport, Services, Tourism, and Environmental Statistics Department,
Contact person: Pavel Vančura, Head of the Tourism and Environmental Statistics Unit, phone number (+420) 274 052 096,
Method of data acquisition: direct survey of the CZSO in collective accommodation establishments
End of data collection: 22 July 2021
End of data processing: 30 July 2021
Related data set: https://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/tourism_ekon
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Published: 09.08.2021
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