The data listed in Tables 8-1. to 8-9. have been obtained from regular statistical surveys.

Collective accommodation establishments refer to establishments that provide temporary accommodation to tourists on a regular or irregular basis. A collective accommodation establishment is an establishment with at least five rooms or ten beds. The collective accommodation establishments include hotels, boarding houses, holiday dwellings, campsites, tourist lodging houses and other establishments. Individual accommodation establishments (accommodation in private) have not been measured since 2002.

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). Boarding house is an accommodation establishment with a minimum of 5 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 stays of guests in their own equipment (tent, caravan, etc.), or possibly in the facilities of operator (cottages, cabins, bungalows, etc.). Holiday dwellings are establishments for temporary stays 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.

Beds in accommodation establishments are all permanent beds used for the overnight rest of guests (they exclude extra 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. 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. The average length of stay is by one unit higher than the average number of overnight stays. The net use of bed places gives the net occupancy rate for permanent beds that were really available to guests. The calculation is based on the average number of available beds and the number of days on which the accommodation establishment was run. The use of rooms gives the net occupancy rate for rooms. The calculation is based on the number of implemented room-days (i.e. the total number of days on which the rooms were occupied by at least one guest) and the total number of room-days.

Data on accommodation establishments and their capacity in the years 2002 – 2004 were revised based on quality improvement of the Register of Accommodation Establishments (data additionally surveyed directly in individual establishments). Data on visits in collective accommodation establishments in 2002 were revised, too.

In order to present the Czech Republic in a more attractive way especially abroad, 15 tourism regions were defined in 1998 – 1999 with a specific kind of tourism within each of them. For the needs of domestic tourism, these tourism regions were further broken down to 43 tourism districts. Data on capacity of collective accommodation establishments in individual tourism districts are provided in Tables 8-5 and 8-6.

The data presented in Tables 8-10. and 8-11. on short and long trips are derived from a sample survey on tourism run in the Czech Republic every month. The survey is based on a two-stage random sample where census districts are units for the first stage while simple random sampling of dwellings in the census districts is carried out in the second stage. The data are measured on one selected member of household who is over 15 and usually lives in the dwelling under survey. He/she is asked about trips he/she made in the reference month for the purpose of spending leisure and recreation, outside his/her usual environment (permanent or temporary residence, workplace, school, etc.). The data ascertained in this manner are then grossed up to 15+ population, using coefficients.

A long trip is a trip taken for the purpose of spending leisure and for recreation in which the person stayed over night at least four times in succession outside his/her usual environment.

A short trip is a trip taken for the purpose of spending leisure and for recreation in which the person stayed over night at least once but not more than three times in succession outside his/her usual environment (weekend stays included).
The overnight stay refers to accommodation for the night at a collective accommodation establishment or accommodation for the night in private, whether paid or not, i.e. in own weekend house, with relatives or friends or in the open air. Included are also nights spent on means of transport (train or bus) to and from the destination of trip, on means of transport on round trips, and during trips from one place to another.

Expenditures on short and long trips include:

• expenditures on the trip
• expenditures on accommodation outside the trip proper (incl. meals included in the price of accommodation)
• expenditures on meals outside the trip proper
• expenditures on transport outside the trip proper
• purchases for goods in shops
• other expenditures

The data on railway and road border crossings were provided by the Police of the CR and the Directorate of Alien and Border Police. The names of the border crossing correspond to the names used by the Ministry of the Interior of the CR. The other indicators are broken down by direction in which the state border is crossed: to the CR (arrivals) and out of the CR (departures). The number of persons crossing the state border is obtained by expert guesses made at the border crossings. The number of foreigners from countries with visa duty is accurate.

TRANSPORT

The data on transport were obtained from external sources – from the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications (the 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 (the 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 numbers of vehicles are taken over from police statistics. Registered only are motor vehicles with registration plates assigned as at 31 December.