HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS First quarter of 2009

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YEAR: XLVI.	ZAGREB, 1 JULY, 2009		NUMBER: 4.3.1/1.

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HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS
First quarter of 2009

The realised turnover value in the hotel and restaurant activity in the first quarter of 2009 was nominally by 1.8% lower than in the same period of 2008.

In the same period, prices of hotel and restaurant services increased by 5.7%. Therefore, the turnover really decreased by 7.1%.

The turnover of 1 987 million kuna was realised in 1 796 legal entities and 12 225 outlets with the total of 64 227 persons in employment.

The total number of persons in employment decreased by 1.6%, providing that this decrease was up to 2.2% at legal entities and 1.1% at tradesmen.

I. LEGAL ENTITIES AND NATURAL PERSONS − TOTAL, FIRST QUARTER OF 2009

1. BUSINESS ENTITIES, PERSONS IN PAID EMPLOYMENT, SEATS AND TURNOVER, ACCORDING TO NKD 2007.,FIRST QUARTER OF 2009

	Business entities		Persons in paid employment¹⁾	Seats	Turnover, thousand kuna
	Enterprises/ trade companies	Outlets	Persons in paid employment¹⁾	Seats	I. - III. 2009.	Indices I. - III. 2009. I. - III. 2008.

Total	1 796	12 225	64 227	766 531	1 987 750	98,2

I Accommodation and food service activities	1 790	12 224	63 728	764 009	1 972 386	98,0
55.1 Hotels and similar accommodation	333	-	17 601	151 800	524 085	93,7
55.2, 55.3, 55.9 Camping sites and other short- stay accommodation	140	-	1 458	19 491	46 727	197,5
56.1 Restaurants and mobile food service activities	565	2 777	17 814	200 993	625 535	121,1
56.3 Beverage serving activities	752	8 855	25 282	374 840	732 916	93,6
Other (55.1, 55.2, 55.3, 55.9)²⁾	-	593	1 573	16 885	43 123	81,7
Human health activities (86.1)	6	-	499	2 522	15 364	122,8

1) Situation as on 31 March or on the last working day in the reference quarter

2) Including only outlets

2. BUSINESS UNITS, PERSONS IN PAID EMPLOYMENT, SEATS AND TURNOVER, BY TYPES OF ACCOMMODATION FACILITIES,
FIRST QUARTER OF 2009

	Business units	Persons in paid employment¹⁾	Seats	Turnover, thousand kuna
	Business units	Persons in paid employment¹⁾	Seats	I. - III. 2009.	Indices I. - III. 2009. I. - III. 2008.

Total	14 739	64 227	766 531	1 987 750	98,2
Hotels, villas and all-suite hotels	369	11 997	124 226	481 117	92,8
Tourist resorts²⁾	7	261	4 188	4 939	115,4
Tourist apartments³⁾	9	204	772	2 816	61,9
Boarding houses	122	618	7 369	17 563	161,5
Guest houses	3	52	680	1 467	66,3
Camping sites	7	146	2 465	6 618	94,9
Overnight accommodations	33	264	2 100	7 436	67,8
Hotels	23	120	902	3 239	58,2
Spas	8	465	1 474	14 292	130,8
Other accommodation facilities⁴⁾	344	1 813	27 631	50 572	103,5
Inns	116	309	7 714	7 986	39,0
Restaurants	1 244	8 809	129 045	317 130	92,6
Pizzerias	462	1 899	20 368	62 587	99,9
Bistros	546	1 773	25 885	51 207	78,3
Pastry shops	182	659	4 721	16 765	136,2
Fast food	617	1 944	8 822	100 897	102,3
Cafes	8 230	19 654	291 736	569 979	111,5
Beer halls	64	274	3 069	9 379	106,2
Buffets	657	1 494	23 771	41 500	79,9
Canteens	182	1 599	16 946	54 355	97,2
Catering	117	573	491	30 522	82,9
Other⁵⁾	1 397	4 441	62 156	135 384	100,9
Main offices and auxiliary offices	-	4 859	-	-	-

1) Situation as on 31 March or on the last working day in the referring quarter

2) Hotel resorts, hotel and apartment resorts, apartment resorts and tourist resorts

3) Tourist apartments and apartments

4) Rooms to let, suite, studio-type suite, summer houses, vacation facilities, mountain lodges, hunting lodges, pupils’ or students’ homes and similar facilities,
vessel cabins, sleeping cars and couchettes, uncategorised facilities and rural households

5) Milk-bars, snack-bars, grills, coffee-rooms, night clubs, night bars, discotheques, disco-bars, taverns, wine cellars, vineyard cottages and other hotel and restaurant units

II. LEGAL ENTITIES, FIRST QUARTER OF 2009

1. BUSINESS ENTITIES, PERSONS IN PAID EMPLOYMENT, SEATS AND TURNOVER, BY PREVAILING ACTIVITY
ACCORDING TO NKD 2007., FIRST QUARTER OF 2009

	Enterprises/ trade companies	Persons in paid employment¹⁾	Seats	Turnover, thousand kuna
	Enterprises/ trade companies	Persons in paid employment¹⁾	Seats	I. - III. 2009.	Indices I. - III. 2009. I. - III. 2008.

Total	1 796	31 598	289 741	1 078 974	100,8

I Accommodation and food service activities	1 790	31 099	287 219	1 063 610	100,5
55 Accommodation	473	19 059	171 291	570 812	94,1
55.1 Hotels and similar accommodation	333	17 601	151 800	524 085	92,6
55.2 Holiday and other short-stay accommodation	121	930	9 286	27 627	103,2
55.3 Camping grounds, recreational vehicle parks and trailer parks	6	102	1 049	4 107	153,0
55.9 Other accommodation	13	426	9 156	14 993	131,1
56 Food and beverage service activities	1 317	12 040	115 928	492 798	109,2
56.1 Restaurants and mobile food service activities	565	8 400	72 144	355 559	161,7
	752	3 640	43 784	137 239	106,3
Human health activities (86.1)	6	499	2 522	15 364	122,9

1) Situation as on 31 March or the last working day in the reference quarter

2. BUSINESS UNITS, PERSONS IN PAID EMPLOYMENT, SEATS AND TURNOVER, BY TYPES OF ACCOMMODATION FACILITIES,
FIRST QUARTER OF 2009

	Business units	Persons in paid employment¹⁾	Seats	Turnover, thousand kuna
	Business units	Persons in paid employment¹⁾	Seats	I. - III. 2009.	Indices I. - III. 2009. I. - III. 2008.

Total	2 514	31 598	289 741	1 078 974	100,8

Hotels, villas and all-suite hotels	319	11 771	120 065	472 807	95,8
Tourist resorts²⁾	7	261	4 188	4 939	115,4
Tourist appartments³⁾	9	204	772	2 816	61,9
Boarding houses	32	250	2 635	8 284	95,4
Guest houses	3	52	680	1 467	66,3
Camping sites	7	146	2 465	6 618	95,0
Overnight accommodations	20	179	1 279	5 356	83,9
Hostels	16	99	650	2 560	46,0
Spas	8	465	1 474	14 292	130,8
Other accommodation facilities⁴⁾	155	1 423	21 503	41 441	95,3
Inns	25	113	1 572	4 701	95,9
Restaurants	361	3 849	49 501	163 889	103,9
Pizzerias	90	591	5 212	22 539	133,7
Bistros	121	578	6 333	23 815	108,8
Pastry shops	22	126	1 140	4 281	102,9
Fast food	60	755	2 539	68 151	109,4
Cafes	800	2 682	35 858	100 819	112,7
Beer halls	17	111	1 269	4 573	106,1
Buffets	117	303	3 145	14 553	100,8
Canteens	111	1 464	13 783	49 240	98,2
Catering	14	225	27	21 078	146,9
Other⁵⁾	200	1 092	13 651	40 755	95,2
Main offices and auxiliary offices	-	4 859	-	-	-

1) Situation as on 31 March or on the last working day in the referring quarter

2) Hotel resorts, hotel and apartment resorts, apartment resorts and tourist resorts

3) Tourist apartments and apartments

4) Rooms to let, suite, studio-type suite, summer houses, vacation facilities, mountain lodges, hunting lodges, pupils’ or students’ homes and similar facilities, vessel cabins, sleeping
cars and couchettes and uncategorised facilities

5) Milk-bars, snack-bars, grills, coffee-rooms, night clubs, night bars, discotheques, disco-bars, taverns, wine cellars, vineyard cottages and other hotel and restaurant units

III. NATURAL PERSONS (TRADESMEN ENGAGED IN HOTEL AND RESTAURANT ACTIVITY), FIRST QUARTER OF 2009

1. TRADESMEN, BY PREVAILING HOTEL AND RESTAURANT ACTIVITY ACCORDING TO NKD 2007., FIRSTQUARTER OF 2009

	Outlets	Persons in employment¹⁾	Seats	Turnover, thousand kuna
	Outlets	Persons in employment¹⁾	Seats	I. - III. 2009.	Indices I. - III. 2009. I. - III. 2008.

I Accommodation and food service activities	12 534	33 044	476 790	924 894	94,4
Hotel and restaurant activities	12 225	32 629	476 790	908 776	95,2
Other activities	309	415	0	16 118	64,1

56.1 Restaurants and mobile food service activities	2 812	9 449	128 849	270 809	88,3
Hotel and restaurant activities	2 777	9 414	128 849	269 976	91,0
Other activities	35	35	0	833	8,4

56.3 Beverage serving activities	9 125	22 018	331 056	610 911	98,5
Hotel and restaurant activities	8 855	21 642	331 056	595 677	98,5
Other activities	270	376	0	15 234	101,0

Other	597	1 577	16 885	43 174	81,6
Hotel and restaurant activities	593	1 573	16 885	43 123	81,7
Other activities	4	4	0	51	35,2

1) Situation as on 31 March or on the last working day in the reference quarter

2. OUTLETS, PERSONS IN EMPLOYMENT, SEATS AND TURNOVER, BY TYPES OF ACCOMMODATION ACTIVITIES,
FIRST QUARTER OF 2009

	Outlets	Persons in employment¹⁾	Seats	Turnover, thousand kuna
	Outlets	Persons in employment¹⁾	Seats	I. - III. 2009.	Indices I. - III. 2009. I. - III. 2008.

Total	12 225	32 629	476 790	908 776	95,2

Hotels and all-suite hotels	50	226	4 161	8 310	33,3
Boarding houses	90	368	4 734	9 279	422,0
Overnight accommodations	13	85	821	2 080	45,4
Hostels	7	21	252	679	-
Other accommodation facilities²⁾	189	390	6 128	9 131	169,8
Inns	91	196	6 142	3 285	21,1
Restaurants	883	4 960	79 544	153 241	83,0
Pizzerias	372	1 308	15 156	40 048	87,5
Bistros	425	1 195	19 552	27 392	63,0
Pastry shops	160	533	3 581	12 484	153,2
Fast food	557	1 189	6 283	32 746	90,3
Cafes	7 430	16 972	255 878	469 160	111,3
Beer halls	47	163	1 800	4 806	106,4
Buffets	540	1 191	20 626	26 947	71,9
Canteens	71	135	3 163	5 115	88,0
Catering	103	348	464	9 444	42,0
Other³⁾	1 197	3 349	48 505	94 629	103,6

1) Situation as on 31 March or on the last working day in the referring quarter

2) Rooms to let, suite, studio-type suite, mountain lodges, hunting lodges and rural households

3) Milk-bars, snack-bars, grills, coffee-rooms, night clubs, night bars, discotheques, disco-bars, taverns, wine cellars, vineyard huts and other hotel and restaurant units

NOTES ON METHODOLOGY

Sources and methods of data collection

The sources of data on hotel and restaurant activity are regular statistical reports: the Quarterly Report on Hotel and Restaurant Activity for Legal Entities (UG-11 form) and the Quarterly Report on Hotel and Restaurant Activity for Tradesmen (UG-11/OBRT form).

The reporting method is used in conveying the surveys. The Quarterly Report for Legal Entities comprises all enterprises/trade companies and their parts that are engaged in the hotel and restaurant activity. The Quarterly Report on Hotel and Restaurant Activity for Tradesmen comprises natural persons (tradesmen).

The sampling method is used in conveying the Quarterly Report for Tradesmen survey. The results obtained through this report serve as a base for estimation of the whole group.

Methodology is based on the Eurostat’s Council Regulations (EC) Concerning Short-Term Statistics, 1998.

Data on all tradesmen refer to all activities, both principal and auxiliary ones, possibly performed by tradesmen.

Coverage and comparability

The Quarterly Report on Hotel and Restaurant Activity (UG-11 form) cover all legal entities (enterprises/trade companies) and parts thereof that are engaged in the hotel and restaurant activity. Reporting units for this survey were hotel and restaurant business entities (state-owned, privately owned, cooperatively owned, in mixed ownership and in non-existing ownership; parts of business entities not engaged in hotel and restaurant activities (institutions, foundations, clubs etc.); founders of vacation facilities for children and youths (Red Cross, social care centres, schools, pupil and student organizations etc.); health care organizations, (code 86.1 according to the NKD 2007.) referring to their facilities offering medical rehabilitation services and advantages of natural factors (water, air, altitude etc.), as well as other organizations engaged in health and re-creative tourism (users are charged for services); organizations that founded, or take care of, mountain lodges; business entities engaged in transport (sleeping cars and couchettes); business entities offering facilities for school children’s outdoor sojourns.

Since 2009, a new classification of activities (NKD 2007.) has been in use. This change of the classification as well as continuous updating of the Statistical Business Register affect the comparability of data with previous periods.

The Quarterly Report on Hotel and Restaurant for Tradesmen (UG-11/OBRT form) include tradesmen selected by a random sample method, registered by their prevailing activity into section I of the NKD 2007. Sample stratification was based on the prevailing activity of the tradesmen according to the NKD 2007. The database of income tax payers of the Tax Administration Office of the Ministry of Finance served as a sample framework. It consists of all tradesmen registered in section I of the NKD 2007.

Tradesmen who perform a hotel and restaurant activity, but are registered in other sections of the NKD 2007. by their prevailing activity, are excluded from the framework and, therefore, they were not taken into account when the whole group was estimated.

Definitions regarding hotel and restaurant enterprises

Hotel and restaurant activity includes food preparation and other food provision services, preparation and serving of beverages and accommodation services (the Law on Hotel and Restaurant Activity, NN, No.138/06). According to the NKD 2007. this covers section I Accommodation and food service activities (excluding students’ and pupils’ boarding homes and other non-tourist accommodations, which are also classified into section I). According to the definition of the hotel and restaurant activity, included are also accommodation services to tourists in spas and health establishments (classified under class 86.1 of the NKD 2007.).

Seasonal engagement in a hotel and restaurant activity means that hotel and restaurant business entities and parts thereof may be engaged in hotel and restaurant activity either the whole year round or seasonally. The hotel and restaurant activity is considered to be seasonal if it is done by business entities and parts thereof that in five subsequent months in the course of a year realise, by rendering services and purchase of goods, at least 60% of their annual income. A tradesman may also work periodically (during some events, fairs, performances etc.).

Hotel and restaurant facility is a business unit in hotel and restaurant activity that forms a whole in the business, construction and functional sense or functions like one within a bigger construction unit.

Hotel and restaurant units are divided into different types, that are then classified into various categories. It is to be discerned between accommodation facilities (restaurants, motels, boarding houses, etc.) and food serving facilities (restaurants, coffee-rooms, snack-bars, etc.).

All data by types of facilities are presented according to the Regulation on Classification, Minimal Conditions and Categorisation of Hotel and Restaurant Facilities (NN, Nos. 88/07, 05/08, 49/08 and 75/08) accommodation facilities have been re-categorised into new types and categories.

All facilities that have not been categorised according to the mentioned Regulation are classified as Uncategorised facilities.

Business units related to tradesmen correspond to the number of hotel and restaurant outlets.

According to the methodology, the number of persons in employment comprises all persons who actually work, including owners.

Persons in employment include all persons employed for fixed or unspecified period of time in hotel and restaurant facilities as well as persons employed in administration or supporting services.

Turnover in hotel and restaurant activity includes the value of provided goods and non-goods services – food and drinks, accommodation and other services accompanying basic hotel and restaurant services, irrespective of whether they are charged or not. Turnover includes the value added tax.

Number of seats comprises restaurant seats, and seats on terraces and other places where hotel and restaurant services are available.

Definitions regarding tradesmen

Total turnover includes the value of all sold goods and services, irrespective of whether they are charged or not. Turnover includes the value added tax. The turnover of all activities done by a particular craft (including main, prevailing and other activities crafts are engaged in).

Value added tax includes a value added tax paid by a customer.

Number of persons in employment, according to the methodology, covers all persons who actually work in a craft, including owners who work. While reporting on the number of persons in employment, reporting units often do not stick to this principle and omit owners.

Number of seats at tables comprises indoor seats, seats on terraces and other places in which hotel and restaurant services are available.

Structure of hotel and restaurant turnover, by types of services, refers to the structure expressed in percentage for the turnover realised from hotel and restaurant activities, by the following types of services: alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, food and drinks, accommodation services to tourists and other hotel and restaurant turnover.

Abbreviations

etc. and so on (Latin: et cetera)

NKD 2007. National Classification of Activities,
2007 version

NN Narodne novine, official gazette of the Republic of Croatia

'000 thousand

Symbols

- no occurrence

I. LEGAL ENTITIES AND NATURAL PERSONS − TOTAL, FIRST QUARTER OF 2009

Business units

Persons in paid employment1)

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