Activities of hotels and other accommodation establishments
1. Contact
Responsible agency
Unit
Contact person
Position
Email (agency)
Phone
2. Statistical presentation
Data description
Data on activities of hotels and other accommodation establishments are used to obtain the following information: number of visitors and visitor nights, occupancy of rooms and beds, visitors in breakdown by country.
Statistical concepts and definitions
Statistical unit
Economically active individual merchants and associations whose main activity sector according to NACE Rev. 2 is 55.10, 55.20, 55.30, and other merchants, budgetary institutions, associations, peasant farms and private persons who provide short-stay accommodation services in tourist accommodation establishments (also in addition to their main activities in another sector).
Statistical population
Economically active individual merchants and associations whose main activity sector according to NACE Rev. 2 is 55.10, 55.20, 55.30, and other merchants, budgetary institutions, associations, peasant farms and private persons who provide short-stay accommodation services in tourist accommodation establishments (also in addition to their main activities in another sector) are included in the survey. Starting with 2017, data are compiled on all accommodation establishments without setting a threshold for the number of beds available at the accommodation establishment.
3. Institutional mandate
Legal acts and other agreements
N/A
4. Accessibility and clarity
On-line database
5. Comparability
Comparability - geographical
EU data on tourism
Section - Tourism.
Length of comparable time series
N/A
6. Coherence
Coherence- cross domain
N/A
7. Statistical processing (data source etc.)
Source data
Data are obtained conducting a full-scope survey and data are collected from the CSB statistical report form 1-accommodation establishments "Activity of hotels and other accommodation establishments".
Data collection
Data on tourist accommodation establishments are collected from respondents in a full-scope survey every month according to the report form 1-accommodation establishments "Activity of hotels and other accommodation establishments". The deadline for submitting the questionnaire is the 9th day after the reference month. Most of the data are submitted as e-report in the Electronic Data Collection (EDC) system, as well as in e-mail or by telephone.
Surveyed units planned: about 1 300.
Data compilation
The data submitted by respondents are collected and published for each month, quarter, year.
The main indicators to be published are the number of accommodations, rooms, beds at the end of the period (the total number does not include accommodation during the off-season, that is closed for repair or for other reason), the number of visitors hosted and the nights spent (residents and non-residents), breakdown of non-residents by their country of residence, room and bed occupancy rate of hotels and similar accommodation.
The data is collected by groups of accommodation type, by administrative territories of Latvia (statistical regions, municipalities, cities).