A retail network consists of retail outlets, which sell goods to the final consumer. The figures on the retail network refer to 1998 and are based on results of an ad-hoc survey taken for the CZSO by the association of research agencies Retail Census 99 (GfK, INCOMA, Mag Consulting) in 1999. The statistical survey embraced outlets, which make up a stationary network and sell goods all the year round. Mobile and seasonal outlets, as well as stands and stalls, were excluded.

The retail outlet consists of one or more retail units provided in the same place (having the same address). The retail unit is defined by the space, in which goods are sold to the final consumer, who pays for the goods at one or more cash desks operated in a single closed cash system.

An example is a department store, which is defined as a certain type of retail outlet. Individual commercial departments or rented rooms in the department store constitute retail units, which sell goods via own cash desks independently of the other systems of the department store. This is in contrast to hypermarkets: the hypermarket is a retail outlet as well as a retail unit, which sells goods through a number of interconnected cash desks. Retail units or retail outlets are split into different types according to the kind of goods (assortment) they sell or the size of selling space they have (in case of self-service shop).

The breakdown by selling space does not include self-service shops, which do not sell food.

Selling space is the floor area of a room in which goods are sold. It does not include show windows, areas needed for space-requiring services, store rooms, access room from selling spaces to lifts and escalators, areas occupied by staircases and shafts of lifts and escalators, and areas occupied by air locks and covered approaches.

Shops selling solid fuel, building materials, second-hand cars, etc. are an exception – their selling space includes areas on which goods are stored and sold.

Number of workers includes all regular and temporary employees (including family workers). Where the respondents refused to provide this information, the number was estimated according to other identified indicators relating to a particular retail unit.

Sales – the volume of financial resources obtained by the sale of goods constitutes retail sales. The retail sales are given inclusive of VAT.

Where respondents did not report their sales, the turnover of the retail unit was estimated by means of multi-dimensional models.

TOURISM

Accommodation establishments (collective and individual) refer to establishments that provide temporary accommodation to tourists on a regular or irregular basis. The collective accommodation establishments include hotels, motels, botels, boarding houses, holiday dwellings, campsites, tourist lodging houses and other establishments. The individual accommodation includes rented rooms, dwellings, weekend-houses, and accommodation at family farms.

Hotel is an accommodation establishment with a minimum of 10 rooms for guests and varied range of rendered services, depending on its class (number of stars). Motel is an accommodation establishment with a minimum of 10 rooms, providing usually temporary stay for motorists and parking facilities in close quarters. Boarding house is an accommodation establishment with a minimum of 10 rooms for guests, providing a rather limited range and lower level of social and supplementary services than a hotel, but whose accommodation services are comparable to those available at a hotel of corresponding category. Campsite is an accommodation establishment for temporary stay of guests in their own equipment (tent, caravan, etc.), or possibly in the facilities of operator (cottages, cabins, bungalows, etc.). Holliday dwellings are establishments for temporary stay of guests solely in the operator’s facilities (cottages, log cabins, bungalows). Other includes, e.g. recreational facilities of companies, spas, training centres, and other accommodation establishments allocating some bed capacity for tourism (such as young people’s homes, halls of residence, lodging houses managed by companies, etc.). Individual accommodation provides a limited number of places for private accommodation of tourists.

Bed places in accommodation establishments are all beds used for overnight rest of guests (including occasional beds). Category indicates the type of accommodation establishment. Open-air places refer to places in the open air of campsites – they correspond to the number of places for tents, caravans and campers multiplied by a factor of 4 (it is assumed that they accommodate 4 persons). Guests in an accommodation establishment are persons (including children and excluding owners and operating personnel of the accommodation establishment) who use services of the accommodation establishment for their temporary stay. The guest may use services of the accommodation establishment for the purpose of holiday, tour, business trip, training, course, congress, symposium, curative stay at health resorts, multi-week educational stay of young school children out in the country or stay of children at summer and winter holiday camps. Persons (Czech nationals and foreigners) who use accommodation establishment for temporary stay for the purpose of employment are not included. The length of temporary stay shall not exceed 1 year for the guest to be taken as a tourist. Foreign guests are foreign visitors who spent at lest one night in tourist accommodation establishments. Average length of stay is one unit higher than the average number of overnight stays.

TRANSPORT

The data on transport were obtained from external sources – from the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications (length of railway network), Road and Motorway Directorate of the CR (length of road network) and the Police Headquarters, Ministry of the Interior of the CR (number of motor vehicles).

The length of operated railway lines is the length of continuous rail tracks. It does not include other transport and handling tracks. The road network includes overall lengths of roads classified to classes I, II, III and IV (including their sections in cities, towns and villages, which are incorporated into the network). The number of vehicles is taken over from police statistics and comprises the number of motor and towed vehicles registered by departments of transport under the Police of the CR and kept in the Central Register of Motor Vehicles as at 1 January 2001 (which keeps records of all operated vehicles manufactured as early as 1946). Differences, if any, from data published elsewhere may be a result of updated calculations or different methodology (the difference between registered and operated vehicles is an estimate only). The figures on passengers transported by the public transit are derived from season and other tickets sold and from the amount of money received for sales of individual tickets, using coefficients to take account of the size of city/town . The seat-kilometre indicator shows the maximum offer of transport services available to the public in a given year. The seat-kilometre is defined as the fictitious move of one (1) seat/place available on a public transit vehicle over a distance of one (1) kilometre, the number of the seats/places available for sitting/standing in a vehicle being specified by the manufacturer of the vehicle.