Online accommodation platforms data

 

  • Experimental statistics
  • Main results


    A total of 6 million overnight stays were realized in the Czech Republic in 2022 via the booking portals Airbnb, Booking, Expedia Group or Tripadvisor. Roughly 70% of overnight stays were for tourists from abroad, the remaining 30% represented the accommodation of residents.

    In Prague, 3.1 million nights were spent in this type of accommodation with a 52% share of the total number of overnight stays in the Czech Republic. Prague's share of overnight stays by foreign guests reached 69%. Apart from Prague, the most popular regions for domestic guests according to this type of accommodation included Jihočeský, Jihomoravský and Královéhradecký region.

    Number of overnight stays via online booking platforms in the Czech Republic by NUTS 3, 2022

    Territory / Region NUTS 3 Total Residents Non-residents
    Hlavní město Praha 3 102 705 227 401 2 875 304
    Středočeský kraj 153 265 71 846 81 419
    Jihočeský kraj 460 735 284 819 175 916
    Plzeňský kraj 131 335 74 329 57 006
    Karlovarský kraj 284 312 100 916 183 396
    Ústecký kraj 245 829 82 356 163 473
    Liberecký kraj 313 651 167 476 146 175
    Královéhradecký kraj 336 535 173 460 163 075
    Pardubický kraj 87 307 64 164 23 143
    Kraj Vysočina 51 479 38 981 12 498
    Jihomoravský kraj 438 247 256 114 182 133
    Olomoucký kraj 154 675 110 527 44 148
    Zlínský kraj 76 231 59 697 16 534
    Moravskoslezský kraj 135 164 88 502 46 662
    Czech Republic - Total 5 971 470 1 800 588 4 170 882

    Note: Data for Airbnb, Booking, Expedia, Tripadvisor
    Source: Eurostat, CZSO 2023

     

    Description and history of the project

    In January 2020, the European Commission (Eurostat) signed a non-disclosure agreement with four major international online platforms: Airbnb, Booking, Expedia, Tripadvisor, on the basis of which the first comprehensive collection or passing on statistical data from these providers. In this way, information is not collected directly about the service provider offering accommodation, but through intermediary portals where the guests leave a digital footprint (through advertised listings or actual reservations).

    In June 2021, the first results were published by Eurostat, and at the same time selected more detailed data was provided to the national statistical offices of the member countries based on bilateral data exchange agreements.

    In December 2021, the data for 2020 was published, and at the same time, the results for 2018 and 2019 were revised due to the correction of the data of one of the platforms.

    In July 2022, the data for 2021 was published and the datasets were newly placed in the Eurobase database. Figures for 2022 were published also there in April 2023.
    Statistics | Eurostat (europa.eu) 

    Publication details and methodological description (data after revision) here: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/experimental-statistics/collaborative-economy-platforms

    Eurostat press release from 29 June 2021 (data before revision) here:
    https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_21_3293

     

    Structure and characteristic of data

    Eurostat data covers rentals of holiday accommodation (excluding hotels and campsites) located in 27 EU Member States and 4 EFTA countries, which are offered via four online sharing economy platforms (Airbnb, Booking, Expedia, Tripadvisor). Data is currently available for 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.

     

    Basic indicators

    1. Number of stays - realized orders regardless of the size of the guest group
    2. Number of nights - for completed orders regardless of the size of the guest group
    3. Number of guest nights - number of nights spent during the stay by all guests of the group = number of overnight stays

    Example: A family of four who spent 3 nights in an apartment represents 1 stay, 3 nights and 12 guest nights.

    Note: The term "guest nights" corresponds in content to the monitored indicator "number of nights" or "number of overnight stays", which is used in CZSO statistics. This will also be used in the following text and publication tables.

     

    Use and publication of data

    The results provide an insight into the segment of the collaborative economy, which in recent years has become an important part of the tourism services sector in the Czech Republic. They supplement information on the number of short-term accommodation persons in our territory, most of whom can be considered participants in the tourism industry. At the same time, the data can significantly improve estimates of the total number of visitors in the Czech Republic.

    Data from accommodation platforms is currently published in Eurostat as pilot or experimental, therefore they are also published within the CZSO outside the standard dissemination processes.

     

    Methodological differences

    In tourism statistics, accommodation establishments can be divided into:

    • Collective accommodation establishments (CAE)
    • Individual accommodation establishments - paid/commercial (IAE paid)
    • Individual accommodation establishments – free of charge (IAE free of charge), e.g. with relatives and friends


    The nature of the newly published data does not allow solving the problem of multiple registrations of accommodation providers on several portals at the same time or double counting of data from platforms and other sources of tourism statistics.

    Therefore, in the context of summary data on visitor accommodation within the Czech Republic, there may be an overlap of information, as most online platforms offer the mediation of services for both collective and individual accommodation establishments, with the numerical superiority of individual ones.

    The register and the CZSO surveys (CR 1-12 and CR 2-04) cover only collective accommodation establishments.

    The share of the published four platforms in the total offer in the short-term rental sector - NACE 55.2 is also not apparent from the data. At the same time, all accommodated persons cannot be regarded as participants in the tourism industry.

    The following figure shows a comparison of data from online platforms and data from collective accommodation establishments, which is the standard output of the CZSO (https://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/huz-amet). Methodological overlap and possible double counting of tourists is shown by a dashed arrow. For the time being, more detailed data from the platforms is missing to remove duplicate records. Non-paid forms of accommodation are not included (staying overnight in your own recreation facility, with relatives, friends, etc.).

     

     
  • Table 1 Number of overnight stays through on-line platforms in the Czech Republic by NUTS 2 regions and months
  • Table 2 Number of overnight stays through on-line platforms in the Czech Republic by NUTS 3 regions and selected cities
  • Table 3 Number of overnight stays through on-line platforms in the Czech Republic by country