Statistical Yearbook of the Czech Republic
Trade, hotels and restaurants, tourism - methodology |
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A. TRADE, HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS
The economic entity of the survey is an enterprise whose principal activity belongs to the following economic activities classified by the CZ-NACE:
Notes on tables Tables 18-1 to 18-5. Basic indicators on trade and on hotels and restaurants The data published for all of the three years (2001, 2002 and 2003) were drawn from the results obtained by the processing of the CZSO’s annual statistical questionnaires filled in by enterprises whose principal activities come under trade (CZ-NACE divisions 50, 51, 52) and hotels and restaurants (CZ-NACE division 55). Sales (revenues) excl. VAT, total - sales of own goods, services and goods for resale (in single-entry bookkeeping: revenues from sale of own goods, services and goods for resale).
Employment and financial indicators are defined in Chapters 10. Labour Market and 16A. Industry, respectively. The calculation of the index is based on results obtained by the processing of monthly statistical questionnaires and results obtained by grossing up to universe - i.e. to all units incorporated in the Business Register, which come under the above-mentioned CZ-NACE divisions. The grossing-up results respect findings on the inactivity of enterprises. The sales index incl. VAT (previous year = 100) is calculated:
Available administrative data sources have been used since 2000 to establish activities of enterprises. For this reason the data concerning the period before 2000 and released in previous editions of the statistical yearbook are not comparable methodologically.
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Detailed data and information on the development of the basic indicators on trade and hotels and restaurants are given in the following CZSO publications brought out according to the Catalogue of Publications 2005 (group 9 - SERVICES, subgroup 91 – Retail Trade, Hotels and Restaurants):
and in the comprehensive publications “CZSO Monthly Statistics” (Czech-English) and „Bulletin ČSÚ“ (quarterly).
Monthly survey results are published on Internet web pages of the CZSO: www.czso.cz/csu/czso/slu_ts
Tourism statistics includes information on capacities and outputs of collective tourist accommodation establishments and border statistics. Data on accommodation establishments are obtained from the Register of collective accommodation establishments and the survey on capacity of and guests at collective accommodation establishments. Collective accommodation establishments are establishments, which provide temporary accommodation to tourists, either regularly or irregularly. They include hotels, motels, botels, boarding houses, holiday dwellings, campsites, and tourist lodging houses, as well as others such as historical buildings, recreational establishments of enterprises, training centres and establishments offering beds for tourism (youth hostels, halls of residence, company accommodation facilities etc.). Beds in collective accommodation establishments are all permanent beds used only for the overnight rest of visitors (they exclude extra beds). Places for tents and caravans – the number of places for tents, caravans and campers. Arrival of guest - occurs the moment the guest is checked in an accommodation establishment. Guests in an accommodation establishment are persons (including children and excluding owners and operating personnel of the accommodation establishment) who use services of the establishment for their temporary stay. The guest (visitor) may use services of the establishment for the purpose of holiday, tour, business trip, training, course, congress, symposium, curative stay at health resorts, school in nature or at summer and winter holiday camps (children). Persons (Czech and foreign nationals) who use accommodation establishment services for temporary stays for the purpose of employment are not included. The length of temporary stay shall not exceed 1 year for the guest to be regarded as a tourist.
Between 1998 and 2002, all collective accommodation establishments were measured for capacity and 30% of them sampled for measurement of output. The presented data are sums of the data obtained and processed from submitted questionnaires and imputed data on the accommodation establishments that either failed to supply completed questionnaires or had not been included in the sample. Since 2003, outputs of all collective accommodation establishments have been measured (100% survey). Net use of beds refers to net occupancy of permanent beds actually available to guests.
Use of rooms is based on the number of the so-called room-days (i.e. the total number of days on which the room was occupied by at least one guest). Foreign guests are foreign nationals (foreign tourists) who spend at least one night at tourist accommodation establishments.
As a rule, the average length of stay (days) is higher by one unit than the average number of overnight stays. Before 2003, data on travelling were measured once a year on a sample of households included in the sample survey on household budgets statistics. Since 2003, data on outbound and domestic tourism of Czech citizens are measured quarterly in accordance with international recommendations. Their source is a separate tourism sample survey (TSS). The data are measured on one selected household member aged 15+ who usually resides in a dwelling under the survey. In addition to other indicators on tourism, he/she is mainly asked about the destination of long trips (trips with 4 or more successive overnight stays) he/she made in the reference year for the purpose of spending holidays and leisure outside their usual environment: permanent or temporary place of residence, workplace, school, etc. The survey is based on a two-stage random sample, the first-stage sample unit being an enumeration district and the second-stage one a particular dwelling chosen. The collected data are grossed up to 15+ population of the CR by means of coefficients. The results of the survey are published quarterly. The total number of the long trips does not include business trips, hospital stays, curative stays at spas prescribed by medical doctor in the framework of comprehensive balneotherapy, etc.
The overnight stays included in the long trips refer to accommodation for the night at collective accommodation establishments or accommodation in private, paid or unpaid, i.e. they also include stays at own weekend houses or with relatives and friends or in the open air, as well as accommodation in means of transport during the trip, etc. Foreign persons (formerly referred to as foreign visitors) are all persons (foreign nationals) who arrived in the Czech Republic, i.e. tourists (persons with at least one overnight stay), same-day visitors or persons in transit. The data on the arrivals of foreign persons in the Czech Republic are measured at border crossings, where these persons are classified to three groups. German, Austrian, Polish, and Slovak nationals are registered as citizens of the neighbouring states provided they cross the section of the Czech state border common with the border of their countries when coming to the Czech Republic. Those coming via the other sections of the state border are placed in the second group, among persons from other countries without visa duty. The third group includes persons from countries with visa duty. The number of arrivals of foreign persons from neighbouring countries and other countries without visa duty is established at road and railway border crossings by expert guess, while accurate figures on the number of foreign persons are given for those coming by air and from countries with visa duty.
Since the beginning of 2004, data on “persons from neighbouring countries” at airports have no longer been reported separately.
Data on the departures of Czech citizens abroad are measured at border crossings. The number of departures via road and railway borders crossings is established by expert guess, while exact figures are given for departures by plane.
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Rather detailed information on tourism is available in the following CZSO publications brought out in accordance with the CZSO Catalogue of Publications 2005 (group 9 - SERVICES, subgroup 92 - Tourism):
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