Register of Collective Accommodation Establishments (RUZ) - Methodology
The register of accommodation establishments is kept at the CZSO for the purposes of surveys in collective accommodation establishments. The results of this survey are used retrospectively to update this register. The register serves only for statistical purposes and contains an up-to-date and historical overview of collective accommodation establishments (CAE) in the Czech Republic. Other accommodation establishments (so-called individual) are not included. Each CAE is assigned a unique identification code called pagina.
The CZSO provides users with an application in which it is possible to obtain an overview of collective accommodation establishments in the Czech Republic. The list of accommodation establishments (https://vdb.czso.cz/huz/index.jsp) is displayed for the district and municipality level, which are available either via an interactive map of the Czech Republic or via the lists of regions and districts listed below the map. For quick access, there is also a search engine with an automatic offer of the corresponding territories and names of accommodation establishments. Just start typing the beginning of the name of the territory or facility, and then choose directly from the items offered. Within territorial units, only those are offered in which there is at least one accommodation facility registered in this database. Since June 2020, the list of all collective accommodation establishments has also been made available in machine-readable format using the CSV or XLSX link on the main page of the application.
The ambition of this project is to provide an overview of collective accommodation establishments about which the CZSO has some information (at least the address and capacity) as of a specific date (listed on the introductory page of the database below). The information obtained from the published list can be used by users not only for analytical purposes related to business plans or when considering changes in regional zoning plans, but also for guidance in finding holiday accommodation.
At the same time, since the publication of the list, the CZSO promises feedback in the form of supplementing missing, e. g. newly established accommodation establishments or entering information on a change of operator for existing establishments. Additional information can be entered in the form at https://vdb.czso.cz/huz/form.jsp.
Due to the protection of individual data in the sense of the Act on the State Statistical Service, the capacity of accommodation establishments (number of rooms and number of places for tents and caravans) is stated in intervals. In case of number of rooms there are groups: 10 and less, 11 to 50, 51 to 100, 101 and more. In the case of the number of places for tents and caravans, the intervals are divided into: 10 and less, 11 to 50, 51 to 100, none.
The list is continuously and regularly updated quarterly, always at the end of a specific quarter or in the event of significant changes in its structure.
The list since April 2021 also includes establishments that have been suspended for a long time, for example due to reconstruction, sale, Covid-19 pandemic or temporary accommodation for employment. These establishments are expected to resume operation after the expiration of the suspension period.
The number of establishments in the different versions of the update can be significantly different due to the creation of new establishments or the elimination of those already inactive in tourism.
