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Foreign guests at accommodation facilities (spa): by country
Table 3
Number of guests Index % % Average Number
2009/200 share share length of of nights
2 008 2 009 8 2008 2009 stay
Guests Total 674 313 647 568 96% 11.5 6 689 216
Residents 337 392 341 520 101% 50.03
%
52.74% 12.8 4 031 776
Foreign Guests 336 921 306 048 91% 49.97 47.26% 10.1 2 657 440
Total
%
1 Germany 193 799 176 560 91% 57.52
%
57.69% 9.3 1 471 844
2 Russia 68 237 54 102 79% 20.25
%
17.68% 13.7 685 800
3 Other Asian 21 699 22 535 104% 6.44% 7.36% 7.2 139 052
4
Countries
Ukraine 7 893 6 456 82% 2.34% 2.11% 13.3 79 433
5 Austria 5 396 5 515 102% 1.60% 1.80% 6.9 32 294
6 Israel 4 339 4 466 103% 1.29% 1.46% 13.8 57 215
7 Other
European
Countries
4 822 4 365 91% 1.43% 1.43% 9.9 38 676
8 Slovakia 3 594 4 345 121% 1.07% 1.42% 5.1 17 999
9 U.S.A. 3 315 3 304 100% 0.98% 1.08% 9.8 29 183
1
0
Poland 3 301 3 012 91% 0.98% 0.98% 4.6 10 981
1
1
France 1 847 1 907 103% 0.55% 0.62% 4.5 6 666
1
2
Italy 1 474 1 802 122% 0.44% 0.59% 5.3 7 806
1
3
UK 1 692 1 592 94% 0.50% 0.52% 4.6 5 708
1 The
1 531 1 421 93% 0.45% 0.46% 6.8 8 225
4 Netherlands
1
5
Switzerland 1 246 1 252 100% 0.37% 0.41% 5.3 5 347
1
6
Belgium 741 1 124 152% 0.22% 0.37% 5.1 4 602
1
7
Sweden 878 1 081 123% 0.26% 0.35% 5.1 4 478
1
8
Hungary 1 252 1 081 86% 0.37% 0.35% 3.8 3 048
1
9
China 1 014 1 044 103% 0.30% 0.34% 2.2 1 223
Source: Czech Health Statistics. ÚZIS ČR 2010. ISSN 1210-9991, ISBN 978-80-7280-845-8
Table 4 shows a systematic increase in number of guests and number of nights from 1997, but
decrease in average length of stay although it is still quite high – 10.1. This average length of
stay is motivated by focus on health spa care as a remedy and by cost reimbursement of spa
care by health insurance companies.