Abstract

The Croatian Bureau of Statistics (CBS) conducts a monthly survey on tourist accommodation capacities and their occupancy within the tourism statistics. The purpose of the statistical survey is to monitor the tourist activity realised in commercial accommodation establishments and to provide internationally comparable data in accordance with European standards for tourism statistics.

The survey is implemented on the basis of the Official Statistics Act (NN, Nos 103/03, 75/09, 59/12 and 12/13 – consolidated text) and the Regulation No. 692/2011 of the European Parliament and the Council concerning European statistics on tourism.

The data source for the statistical survey on tourist traffic (number of tourist arrivals and nights) and on accommodation capacities is the administrative source, the eVisitor system, which is under the responsibility of the Croatian Tourist Board. The eVisitor is a central electronic check-in and check-out system for tourists that functionally links all tourist communities in the Republic of Croatia. By publishing the Ordinance on Managing Tourist Records and the Form and Content of the Check-in Form for Checking in Tourists in Tourist Boards (NN, No. 126/15), the e-Visitor system has officially become the central electronic system for checking in or checking out tourists in the Republic of Croatia. The Croatian Bureau of Statistics takes over a part of data from the administrative source eVisitor and further processes them statistically.

Reporting units are all business entities and parts thereof, natural persons and households engaged in providing short-stay accommodation services to tourists: business entities (enterprises/trade companies, craftsmen, institutions, associations, etc.) business entities and parts thereof engaged in providing accommodation services to tourists; health institutions for their own establishments in which persons stay for medical rehabilitation (costs are on persons themselves); business entities that founded or take care of mountain resorts; business entities that use schools, homes and similar establishments as temporary accommodation capacities during school vacations.

Accommodation establishments categorised according to the ordinances on classification, minimum standards and categorisation of accommodation establishments are as follows: hotels, heritage hotels, all-suite hotels, integral hotels, diffuse hotels, special
-standard hotels, spa-type accommodation, tourist resorts, tourist apartments, boarding houses, guest houses, camping sites, small camps, quickstop camping, Robinson-type quickstop camping, rooms, apartments, studio-type suites, summer houses, overnight accommodations, vacation establishments for children, hostels, mountain lodges, hunting lodges, pupils’ homes or students’ homes and Robinson-type accommodation establishments. Pursuant to Article 29 of the Hotel and Restaurant Activity Act (NN, No. 85/15), this statistical survey also covers organised off-site camping sites. During sports, scout, cultural/artistic and similar events as well as during organised trips in canoes and similar vessels on sea, rivers and lakes, or by bikes etc., organised off-site camping is allowed on spaces provided for it.

Information on accommodation capacities and on tourist arrivals and nights is diseminated according to types and categories of accommodation establishments in accordance with currently valid national laws and regulations and according to the NKD 2007., division 55 Accommodation by groups.