Tourism - 3. quarter of 2021

Summer season was in the black

09.11.2021
Code: 020026-21
 

In the Q3 2021, the total number of guests accommodated in collective accommodation establishments increased by 12.5%, year-on-year (y-o-y), and the number of overnight stays of guests in collective accommodation establishments increased by 11.0%, y-o-y. The number of guests was increasing for two successive quarters already. When compared to 2019, i.e. the year before the COVID-19 pandemic, the volume of visits in summer months reached 90%.

The number of overnight stays of guests in collective accommodation establishments reached 19.4 million nights in total in the Q3 2021, which was by 11.0% more compared to the corresponding period of the previous year. The number of overnight stays of guests from the Czech Republic (CR) increased by 9.1%, y-o-y; guests from abroad spent in accommodation establishments in the CR by 21.8% more nights compared to the previous year. From the total number of overnight stays, 46% were spent in hotels, 16% in boarding houses, and the same share was spent in tourist campsites, too.

In total, 6.7 million guests arrived to collective accommodation establishments during the surveyed period, which was an increase by 12.5%, y-o-y. The number of both (guests from the Czech Republic and from abroad) increased (by 10.4% and 22.3%, respectively). Compared to the 2019 summer season, before the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of accommodated guests from the CR was by 29% higher this year and the number of guests from abroad was by 62% lower than two years ago. The number of guests in hotels increased during the period from July to September 2021 by 26.5%, y-o-y (3.5 million guests in total), boarding houses accommodated by 9.6% more persons, whereas tourist campsites recorded a decrease in the number of arrivals by 3.7%. 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 (Capital City of Prague; +41.7%).

The highest number of foreign guests (non-residents; by citizenship) came from Germany in the Q3 2021. In the surveyed accommodation establishments, Germans still made over a fourth of guests from abroad (375 thousand arrivals). Compared to the corresponding period of the previous year, however, their number decreased by 9.6%. The second most numerous group consisted of guests from Slovakia (172 thousand); it was 41.5% up, y-o-y. Guests from Poland ranked third (147 thousand arrivals; 7.2% down, y-o-y). As for non-European countries, the highest number of foreign guests accommodated in accommodation establishments in the CR were citizens of the United States of America (39 thousand) and Israel (35 thousand).   

Spa accommodation establishments also reached black numbers in the Q3 2021. They were visited by 272 thousand guests in total who accommodated there, i.e. by 10.1% more compared to the corresponding period of the previous year. The number of overnight stays also increased (by 5.3%). Both the number of arrivals and the number of nights spent in Czech and Moravian spas was higher as for residents, year-on-year. The number of arrivals of non-residents slightly decreased (by 0.2%); however, the number of their overnight stays increased by 6.4%. Eight out of ten of accommodated guests in spa accommodation establishments were Czechs and their average stay lasted for 7 nights.

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Responsible head at the CZSO: Marie Boušková, Director of the Trade, Transport, Services, Tourism, and Environmental Statistics Department, phone number (+420) 274 052 935, e-mail: marie.bouskova@czso.cz
Contact person: Pavel Vančura, Head of the Tourism and Environmental Statistics Unit, phone number (+420) 274 052 096, e-mail: pavel.vancura@czso.cz
Method of data acquisition: direct survey of the CZSO in collective accommodation establishments
End of data collection: 22 October 2021
End of data processing: 1 November 2021
Related data set: https://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/tourism_ekon
Next News Release will be published on: 9 February 2022

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  • Annexes:
  • Table 1 Guests (accommodation establishment category, numbers, indices)
  • Table 2 Overnight stays (accommodation establishment category, numbers, indices)
  • Table 3 Guests (Regions of the CR, numbers, indices)
  • Table 4 Overnight stays (Regions of the CR, numbers, indices)
  • Table 5 Guests, overnight stays (non-residents by country, numbers, indices)
  • Chart 1 Number of guests in collective accommodation establishments (y-o-y change in %)
  • Chart 2 Number of guests in collective accommodation establishments
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Published: 09.11.2021
The data are valid as of the release date of the publication.


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