TOURISM - CUMULATIVE DATA
Period January - November 2000

In the period January - November 2000, the number of tourist arrivals in commercial accommodation facilities (excluding marinas) in Croatia increased by 40% and there were 45% tourist nights more than in the same period 1999.

Tourists realised 38 119 883 nights: 13.0% by domestic tourists, which is 2% less than in the period January - November 1999 and 87% by foreign tourists, which is 56% more than in the same period last year.

Most foreign tourist nights (90.4%) were realised by tourists from Germany (22.8%), Slovenia (14.9%), Czech Republic (14.2%), Italy (13.0%), Austria (9.5%), Poland (5.4%), Hungary (4.2%), Slovakia (3.7%) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (2.6%).

In the period January - November 2000 tourist nights of tourists from Poland increased by 166%, of those from Hungary by 73%, from Slovakia by 72%, from Italy by 70%, from Germany by 68%, from the Czech Republic by 66%, from Austria by 33% and from Slovenia by 17%, as compared to the same period of 1999.

1. TOURIST ARRIVALS AND NIGHTS

	Arrivals			Nights			January - November 2000
	January - November		Indices I - XI. 2000 I - XI. 1999	January - November		Indices I - XI. 2000 I - XI. 1999	Structure, of nights (%)	Average number of nights by arrival
	1999	2000		1999	2000
Total	4 637 616	6 497 963	140	26 308 475	38 119 883	145	100,0	5,9
Domestic tourists	1 240 068	1 214 327	98	5 078 115	4 955 803	98	13,0	4,1
Foreign tourists	3 397 548	5 283 636	156	21 230 360	33 164 080	156	87,0	6,3

2. FOREIGN TOURISTS ARRIVALS AND NIGHTS BY COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE

	Arrivals			Nights			January - November 2000
	January - November		Indices I - XI. 2000 I - XI. 1999	January - November		Indices I - XI. 2000 I - XI. 1999	Structure, of nights (%)	Average number of nights by arrival
	1999	2000		1999	2000
TOTAL	3 397 548	5 283 636	156	21 230 360	33 164 080	156	100,0	6,3
Austria	370 432	506 910	137	2 365 187	3 144 343	133	9,5	6,2
Belgium	15 898	39 025	245	108 586	289 456	267	0,9	7,4
Belarus	1 928	3 952	205	13 482	31 780	236	0,1	8,0
Bosnia and Herzegovina	152 638	177 206	116	755 840	880 307	116	2,7	5,0
Bulgaria	4 423	5 427	123	21 218	19 250	91	0,1	3,5
Czech Republic	414 879	697 140	168	2 843 898	4 712 427	166	14,2	6,8
Denmark	11 789	20 378	173	67 157	128 247	191	0,4	6,3
Estonia	259	498	192	1 211	1 788	148	0,0	3,6
Finland	2 729	3 364	123	7 382	9 820	133	0,0	2,9
France	30 610	50 914	166	85 821	170 453	199	0,5	3,3
Greece	1 412	2 270	161	4 986	8 056	162	0,0	3,5
Ireland	3 976	5 236	132	11 985	19 134	160	0,1	3,7
Iceland	1 351	852	63	5 266	3 080	58	0,0	3,6
Italy	525 014	869 411	166	2 544 187	4 321 083	170	13,0	5,0
Israel	7 021	32 753	467	12 759	76 138	597	0,2	2,3
Yugoslavia	3 410	4 797	141	11 917	19 110	160	0,1	4,0
Latvia	364	307	84	1 901	879	46	0,0	2,9
Lithuania	1 531	6 139	401	5 018	25 685	512	0,1	4,2
Luxembourg	1 116	813	73	4 564	3 359	74	0,0	4,1
Hungary	140 665	237 949	169	810 936	1 400 566	173	4,2	5,9
Macedonia	7 793	11 238	144	28 635	45 127	158	0,1	4,0
Netherlands	71 534	99 038	138	590 770	893 072	151	2,7	9,0
Norway	6 053	8 654	143	22 170	35 429	160	0,1	4,1
Germany	525 937	913 731	174	4 496 252	7 573 604	168	22,8	8,3
Poland	104 146	274 401	263	677 648	1 803 541	266	5,4	6,6
Portugal	1 709	4 143	242	4 931	11 897	241	0,0	2,9
Romania	7 131	16 097	226	27 758	66 520	240	0,2	4,1
Russian Federation	8 776	27 633	315	51 072	225 667	442	0,7	8,2
Slovakia	107 425	183 503	171	722 578	1 243 260	172	3,7	6,8
Slovenia	684 019	812 387	119	4 222 492	4 952 284	117	14,9	6,1
Spain	10 483	23 923	228	25 470	49 137	193	0,1	2,1
Sweden	13 574	19 554	144	64 736	98 964	153	0,3	5,1
Switzerland	23 292	31 477	135	97 040	147 091	152	0,4	4,7
Turkey	4 117	5 086	124	10 558	13 112	124	0,0	2,6
Ukraine	3 344	5 450	163	21 170	37 610	178	0,1	6,9
Great Britain	49 383	66 528	135	264 320	380 468	144	1,1	5,7
Other European countries	6 388	13 130	206	25 626	33 763	132	0,1	2,6
Australia	6 891	9 017	131	18 316	23 056	126	0,1	2,6
Japan	6 249	10 490	168	12 119	19 052	157	0,1	1,8
Canada	9 227	13 366	145	25 023	39 083	156	0,1	2,9
New Zealand	1 348	2 669	198	3 212	6 723	209	0,0	2,5
USA	34 699	48 717	140	93 775	138 048	147	0,4	2,8
Other non-European countries	12 585	18 063	144	41 388	62 611	151	0,2	3,5

3. TOURIST ARRIVALS AND NIGHTS IN PORTS OF NAUTICAL TOURISM

	Arrivals			Nights
	January - November		Indices I - XI. 2000 I - XI. 1999	January - November		Indices I - XI. 2000 I - XI. 1999
	1999	2000		1999	2000
Total	375 989	516 371	137,3	561 510	775 750	138,2
Domestic tourists	14 204	23 237	163,6	26 183	38 953	148,8
Foreign tourists	361 785	493 134	136,3	535 327	736 797	137,6

NOTES ON METHODOLOGY

Source

Data on tourist turnover (number of tourist arrivals and tourist nights) are collected from regular monthly report (report form TU-11). Reports are usually made on the basis of reception records in guest books.

Methods of data collection

The methodology of this survey is based on the recommendations of Eurostat and World Tourist Organisation
(WTO). Reporting units are all business entities (enterprises/trade companies, independent operators, co-operatives, institutions, associations etc.) and their parts engaged in the activity of providing accommodation services to tourists; health institutions for their facilities in which persons stay for the reasons of medical rehabilitation (costs are paid by persons themselves); business entities and their parts engaged in organising and arranging tourists’ stay in rural households; tourist boards and other bodies competent for private rooms, apartments or summer houses directly rented by private persons/households; business entities and their parts for their vacation facilities; business entities which founded or take care of mountain resorts; military institutions for their catering establishments; business entities who use schools, homes and similar buildings as temporary vacation facilities during school vacations; a business entity “Sleeping and restaurant cars” and business entities in river and sea water transport (only scheduled lines).

All data by kinds of facilities are presented according to the Regulations given in Narodne novine, official gazette of the Republic of Croatia, Nos. 17/82; 22, 26/89 and 24/90.

Coverage

Reports cover all legal persons and their parts and natural persons (including those engaged in managing ports of nautical tourism) as well as households that rent accommodation facilities to tourists.

Data do not include non-commercial tourist turnover (owner’s stay and stay of their relatives and friends in villas and summer houses). This is covered by a separate statistical survey (report form TU-11v).

Although since 1998 the data on tourist turnover in ports of nautical tourism have been collected by this survey, they are presented as separate data in tables 5 and 7 of this Release, following the Eurostat recommendations.

Definitions

Tourist is every person who, outside his place of permanent residence, spends at least one night in a hotel or some other accommodation facility for reasons of rest, recreation, health, study, sport, religion, family, business, public tasks or meeting. Excluded are migrants, borderline workers, diplomats, military force members on their regular duties, displaced persons and nomads

Residence is a place where a person came with an intention of permanent stay.

Tourist is registered in every place or object where he stays and, therefore, in case of change of place or object he must register again, which results in data ambiguity. Consequently, the statistics register the number of tourist arrivals, and not the number of tourists.

Domestic tourist is a person with permanent residence in the Republic of Croatia who spends at least one night in a hotel or some other accommodation facility outside their place or residence.

Foreign tourist is every person with permanent residence outside of the Republic of Croatia who temporarily resides in Croatia and who spends at least one night in a hotel or some other accommodation facility.

Territorial constitution

Data by counties, towns and municipalities are given by territorial constitution according to the Law on the Territories of Counties, Towns and Municipalities in the Republic of Croatia (Narodne novine, official gazette of the Republic of Croatia, Nos. 10/97, 124/97, 68/98 and 117/99).

Symbols

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Abbreviations

'000   thousand