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Table 6 shows the number of guests in health spas according to costs reimbursement. It is
visible that the number of complex spa care guests as well as the allowance spa care guest is
decreasing for the benefit of commercial spa care guests in both groups – residents and nonresidents
as well.
Number of Guests in Health Spas According to Costs Reimbursement Table 6
Number
Guests
of
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Complex Spa
Care
112.670 105.324 94.429 92.605 91.488
Allowance
Spa Care
Commercial
19.147 18.253 18.572 15.708 15.149
Spa Care 45.282 55.853 66.688 91.896 112.987
(Residents)
Commercial
Spa
(Non-
Care
117.003 119.929 134.518 133.761 153.704
residents)
Total 294.102 299.359 314.207 333.970 373.328
Source: Czech Health Statistics. ÚZIS ČR 2010. ISSN 1210-9991, ISBN 978-80-7280-845-8
While the minimum length of stay for complex and allowance spa care was traditionally 21
days, the average length of stay decreased to 18.4 days in 2004 followed by additional
decrease to 14.8 days in 2008 in the Czech Republic.
There is no official statistics on age structure of health spa visitors in the Czech Republic. The
only research in this field was conducted by the agency Psyma in 2002. As it can be seen from
Table 7 the most important group is a group of 60 years old guests (53.06%), the second
important group is the one of 30 – 44 years old guests (10.88), followed by the group of 45 –
59 years old guest (3.25%). It is assumed that the number of guests in the group of 45 – 59
years old increased in the last decade.