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Share of Tourism on National Economy Table 1
Indicator
Share of tourism
receipts on GDP (in
%)
Share of tourism
receipts on exports
(in %)
1993 5.0 11.0 33,0
1994 5.5 14.0 43,2
1995 5.6 13.4 42,8
1996 7.1 18.6 49,8
1997 6.9 16.3 50.9
1998 6.8 15.0 50,6
1999 5.8 12.0 44,8
2000 5.9 10.3 43,5
2001 5.5 9.3 43,8
2002 4.2 7.7 41,7
2003 4.2 7.3 45,8
2004 3.8 6.2 43.4
2005 3.7 6.8 39.7
2006 3.9 5.8 39.7
2007 3.8 5.4 38.7
2008 3.5 5.5 34.7
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Share of tourism
receipts on service
receipts (in %)
Tourism as one of the largest international industries has also a noticeable impact on the
balance of payments of the Czech Republic. The development of the foreign exchange
receipts and expenditure could be divided into two main stages – in the first stage, the
receipts increased and reached its pick in 1996 with 4,1 bn USD, decrease of receipts is
typical to the second stage, especially 1999, followed by 2000. Table 2 shows a light increase
in 2001 but the situation after September 2001 and the floods in 2002 resonated in decrease of
tourism receipts in 2002. The following years – 2003 - 2008 show increase in receipts again.