TOURISM - CUMULATIVE DATA
Period January - December 2000

In the period January - December 2000, the number of tourist arrivals in commercial accommodation facilities (excluding marinas) in Croatia increased by 39% and there were 45% tourist nights more than in the same period 1999.

Tourists realised 38 405 930 nights: 13.3% by domestic tourists, which is 2% less than in the period January - December 1999 and 86.7% by foreign tourists, which is 56% more than in the same period last year.

Most foreign tourist nights (90.5%) were realised by tourists from Germany (22.8%), Slovenia (14.9%), Czech Republic (14.2%), Italy (13.1%), Austria (9.5%), Poland (5.4%), Hungary (4.2%), Slovakia (3.7%) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (2.7%).

In the period January - December 2000 tourist nights from Poland increased by 166%, from Hungary by 73%, from Slovakia by 72%, from Italy by 69%, from Germany by 68%, from Czech Republic by 66%, from Austria by 33% and from Slovenia and Bosina and Herzegovina by 17%, as compared to the same period of 1999.

1. TOURIST ARRIVALS AND NIGHTS

	Arrivals			Nights			January - December 2000
	January - December		Indices I - XII. 2000. I - XII. 1999.	January - December		Indices I - XII. 2000. I - XII. 1999.	structure, of nights (%)	average number of nights by arrival
	1999.	2000.		1999.	2000.
Total	4 750 563	6 619 684	139	26 563 845	38 405 930	145	100,0	5,8
Domestic tourists	1 307 331	1 282 035	98	5 214 948	5 098 522	98	13,3	4,0
Foreign tourists	3 443 232	5 337 649	155	21 348 897	33 307 408	156	86,7	6,2

2. FOREIGN TOURISTS ARRIVALS AND NIGHTS BY COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE

	Arrivals			Nights			January - December 2000
	January - December		Indices I - XII. 2000 I - XII. 1999	January - December		Indices I - XII. 2000 I - XII. 1999	structure, of nights (%)	average number of nights by arrival
	1999.	2000.		1999.	2000.
TOTAL	3 443 232	5 337 649	155	21 348 897	33 307 408	156	100,0	6,2
Austria	374 276	511 896	137	2 377 516	3 159 151	133	9,5	6,2
Belgium	16 159	39 296	243	109 307	290 158	265	0,9	7,4
Belarus	1 983	3 956	199	13 585	31 786	234	0,1	8,0
Bosnia and Herzegovina	157 027	181 693	116	763 041	889 876	117	2,7	4,9
Bulgaria	4 669	5 775	124	21 830	19 916	91	0,1	3,4
Czech Republic	415 295	697 521	168	2 844 657	4 713 186	166	14,2	6,8
Denmark	11 954	20 542	172	67 494	128 596	191	0,4	6,3
Estonia	264	514	195	1 258	1 823	145	0,0	3,5
Finland	2 840	3 481	123	7 584	10 053	133	0,0	2,9
France	31 646	51 828	164	87 818	172 498	196	0,5	3,3
Greece	1 556	2 398	154	5 481	8 721	159	0,0	3,6
Ireland	4 061	5 326	131	12 237	19 403	159	0,1	3,6
Iceland	1 498	866	58	5 684	3 096	54	0,0	3,6
Italy	538 347	886 461	165	2 577 648	4 360 507	169	13,1	4,9
Israel	7 084	33 041	466	12 900	77 047	597	0,2	2,3
Yugoslavia	3 481	5 075	146	12 058	19 652	163	0,1	3,9
Latvia	368	320	87	1 912	912	48	0,0	2,8
Lithuania	1 564	6 226	398	5 133	25 852	504	0,1	4,2
Luxembourg	1 143	837	73	4 640	3 385	73	0,0	4,0
Hungary	141 413	238 774	169	813 403	1 403 295	173	4,2	5,9
Macedonia	8 186	11 785	144	29 401	46 186	157	0,1	3,9
Netherlands	72 551	100 052	138	592 192	895 316	151	2,7	8,9
Norway	6 235	8 855	142	22 548	35 878	159	0,1	4,1
Germany	531 259	919 789	173	4 514 765	7 597 881	168	22,8	8,3
Poland	104 893	274 956	262	679 487	1 804 933	266	5,4	6,6
Portugal	1 799	4 199	233	5 113	12 032	235	0,0	2,9
Romania	7 455	16 600	223	28 491	67 450	237	0,2	4,1
Russian Federation	9 001	27 951	311	51 793	226 699	438	0,7	8,1
Slovakia	107 629	183 740	171	723 090	1 243 795	172	3,7	6,8
Slovenia	689 851	818 868	119	4 237 203	4 968 383	117	14,9	6,1
Spain	10 879	24 493	225	26 604	50 796	191	0,2	2,1
Sweden	13 893	19 826	143	65 750	99 588	151	0,3	5,0
Switzerland	24 227	32 284	133	98 366	148 313	151	0,4	4,6
Turkey	4 382	5 309	121	11 263	13 542	120	0,0	2,6
Ukraine	3 425	5 549	162	21 455	37 949	177	0,1	6,8
Great Britain	50 890	68 070	134	269 814	387 646	144	1,2	5,7
Other European countries	6 515	13 605	209	25 899	34 756	134	0,1	2,6
Australia	7 039	9 204	131	18 805	23 522	125	0,1	2,6
Japan	6 375	10 914	171	12 360	20 110	163	0,1	1,8
Canada	9 600	14 002	146	25 729	40 189	156	0,1	2,9
New Zealand	1 367	2 696	197	3 279	6 793	207	0,0	2,5
USA	36 060	50 340	140	97 333	142 147	146	0,4	2,8
Other non-European countries	13 093	18 736	143	42 971	64 591	150	0,2	3,4

3. TOURIST ARRIVALS AND NIGHTS IN PORTS OF NAUTICAL TOURISM

	Arrivals			Nights
	January - December		Indices I - XII. 2000. I - XII. 1999.	January - December		Indices I - XII. 2000. I - XII. 1999.
	1999.	2000.		1999.	2000.
Total	376 339	516 870	137,3	562 319	776 924	138,2
Domestic tourists	14 228	23 339	164,0	26 207	39 100	149,2
Foreign tourists	362 111	493 531	136,3	536 112	737 824	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 collection

The methodology of this survey is based on the recommendations of Eurostat and World Tourist Organisation
(WTO).

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 table 3 of this Release only), 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.

Symbols

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Abbreviations

'000   thousand