HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS Third quarter of 2009

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YEAR: XLVI.	ZAGREB, 28 DECEMBER, 2009		NUMBER: 4.3.1/3.

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HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS

Third quarter of 2009

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

In the same period, the prices of hotel and restaurant services increased by 3.2%. Therefore, the turnover really decreased by 4.8%.

The turnover of 7 657 million kuna was realised in 2 406 legal entities and 13 297 outlets. The total number of persons in employment in hotels and restaurants amounted to 89 038.

The total turnover in the hotel and restaurant activity in the period from January to September 2009 amounted to 13 794 million kuna, which was nominally by 2.9% and really by 6.8% less than in the same period last year.

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

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

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

Total	2 406	13 297	89 038	1 023 203	7 656 926	98,2	13 793 596	97,1

I Accommodation and food service activities	2 400	13 297	88 482	1 020 281	7 635 979	98,2	13 743 573	97,1
55 Accommodation	982	976	38 889	331 809	5 361 134	98,4	8 360 116	96,5
55.1 Hotels and similar accommodation	498	-	32 463	274 293	4 635 627	97,8	7 294 097	96,3
55.2 Holiday and other short-stay accommodation	405	-	2 110	16 899	186 562	100,5	284 500	99,6
55.3 Camping grounds, recreational vehicle parks and trailer parks	60	-	1 458	8 507	359 438	110,8	461 080	109,5
55.9 Other accommodation	19	-	488	9 446	37 704	114,2	73 719	106,7
Other (55.1, 55.2, 55.3, 55.9)²⁾	-	976	2 370	22 664	141 803	87,3	246 720	80,3
56 Food and beverage service activities	1 418	12 321	49 593	688 472	2 274 845	97,7	5 383 457	97,9
56.1 Restaurants and mobile food service activities	604	3 483	19 625	251 010	1 078 400	96,1	2 400 927	97,7
56.2 Event catering and other food service activities	64	-	2 455	17 997	72 864	99,5	224 857	95,1
56.3. Beverage serving activities	750	8 838	27 513	419 465	1 123 581	99,5	2 757 673	98,2
Human health activities (86.1)	6	-	556	2 922	20 947	97,6	50 023	100,8

1) Situation as on 31 August 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,
THIRD QUARTER OF 2009

	Business units	Persons in paid employment¹⁾	Seats	Turnover, thousand kuna
	Business units	Persons in paid employment¹⁾	Seats	VII. – IX. 2009.	Indices VII. – IX. 2009. VII. – IX. 2008.	I. – IX. 2009.	Indices I. – IX. 2009. I. – IX. 2008.

Total	16 886	89 038	1 023 203	7 656 926	98,2	13 793 596	97,1
Hotels and all-suite hotels	561	21 573	200 470	3 191 416	96,9	5 317 789	94,9
Tourist resorts	47	2 677	35 277	520 758	89,5	690 851	89,5
Tourist apartments	41	558	2 966	173 905	110,4	240 195	115,0
Boarding houses	112	751	9 803	52 840	94,9	97 502	108,2
Guest houses	11	217	3 095	23 656	87,8	32 469	79,6
Camping sites and small camps	177	2 424	11 834	865 385	104,5	1 123 945	103,3
Overnight accommodations	34	275	2 974	15 705	77,3	33 334	72,1
Hostels	43	353	3 071	33 344	115,9	51 725	106,5
Spas	8	503	1 874	18 265	98,9	45 183	105,6
Other accommodation facilities²⁾	1 102	3 559	30 162	356 810	114,8	537 198	109,2
Inns	135	649	9 056	36 490	73,8	65 114	61,1
Restaurants	1 830	12 346	175 550	698 547	102,7	1 492 563	97,5
Pizzerias	520	2 491	30 024	121 084	91,9	259 846	92,5
Bistros	600	2 247	33 404	103 079	88,7	229 354	84,1
Pastry shops	237	723	6 982	30 193	54,6	68 926	71,2
Fast food	771	2 394	14 850	149 042	97,6	368 896	99,6
Cafes	7 791	19 046	308 834	761 215	103,5	2 002 995	107,1
Beer halls	91	379	5 200	13 102	96,3	35 602	102,3
Buffets	721	1 969	33 362	99 181	82,9	197 251	79,7
Canteens	184	1 561	17 152	48 929	100,6	161 116	98,2
Catering	102	557	570	28 187	49,4	95 925	64,4
Other³⁾	1 768	6 357	86 693	315 793	99,5	645 817	98,7
Main offices and auxiliary offices	-	5 429	-	-	-	-	-

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

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

3) 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, THIRD QUARTER OF 2009

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

	Enterprises/ trade companies	Persons in paid employment¹⁾	Seats	Turnover, thousand kuna
	Enterprises/ trade companies	Persons in paid employment¹⁾	Seats	VII. – IX. 2009.	Indices VII. – IX. 2009. VII. – IX. 2008.	I. – IX. 2009.	Indices I. – IX. 2009. I. – IX. 2008.

Total	2 406	50 687	448 436	6 026 839	99,7	10 088 413	98,9

I Accommodation and food service activities	2 400	50 131	445 514	6 005 892	99,7	10 038 390	98,9
55 Accommodation	982	36 519	309 145	5 219 331	98,8	8 113 396	97,2
55.1 Hotels and similar accommodation	498	32 463	274 293	4 635 627	97,8	7 294 097	96,3
55.2 Holiday and other short-stay accommodation	405	2 110	16 899	186 562	100,5	284 500	99,6
55.3 Camping grounds, recreational vehicle parks and trailer parks	60	1 458	8 507	359 438	110,8	461 080	109,5
55.9 Other accommodation	19	488	9 446	37 704	114,2	73 719	109,6
56 Food and beverage service activities	1 418	13 612	136 369	786 561	106,4	1 924 994	107,0
56.1 Restaurants and mobile food service activities	604	7 150	70 312	514 725	110,7	1 193 971	111,5
56.2 Event catering and other food service activities	64	2 455	17 997	72 864	99,5	224 857	95,1
56.3 Beverage serving activities	750	4 007	48 060	198 972	98,9	506 166	102,8
Human health activities (86.1)	6	556	2 922	20 947	97,6	50 023	100,8

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

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

	Business units	Persons in paid employment¹⁾	Seats	Turnover, thousand kuna
	Business units	Persons in paid employment¹⁾	Seats	VII. – IX. 2009.	Indices VII. – IX. 2009. VII. – IX. 2008.	I. – IX. 2009.	Indices I. – IX. 2009. I. – IX. 2008.

Total	3 589	50 687	448 436	6 026 839	99,7	10 088 413	98,9
Hotels and all-suite hotels	494	21 257	197 629	3 170 446	98,2	5 283 124	96,5
Tourist resorts	47	2 677	35 277	520 758	90,4	690 851	89,5
Tourist apartments	41	558	2 966	173 905	110,4	240 195	115,0
Boarding houses	62	428	5 194	29 698	81,1	53 805	88,0
Guest houses	11	217	3 095	23 656	87,8	32 469	79,6
Camping sites and small camps	136	2 360	10 914	859 199	105,2	1 115 900	104,0
Overnight accommodations	25	213	2 326	13 772	87,8	27 383	83,5
Hostels	39	340	3 071	32 390	112,6	48 825	100,5
Spas	8	503	1 874	18 265	98,9	45 183	105,6
Other accommodation facilities²⁾	532	2 798	26 824	306 685	110,9	463 438	105,2
Inns	31	168	2 246	9 325	112,7	21 481	108,6
Restaurants	431	4 612	58 524	319 053	101,7	720 432	102,0
Pizzerias	106	719	6 743	38 845	114,4	89 208	121,4
Bistros	135	684	7 924	36 156	101,3	90 828	105,4
Pastry shops	33	171	1 554	8 500	106,4	20 079	106,3
Fast food	83	878	4 223	95 557	116,3	243 563	112,6
Cafes	858	2 987	41 796	160 260	99,6	395 089	106,8
Beer halls	18	123	1 739	5 960	90,9	16 144	94,5
Buffets	131	423	5 169	37 157	97,2	73 498	97,6
Canteens	112	1 459	13 832	45 205	101,2	145 643	97,9
Catering	19	271	275	18 115	64,6	65 552	100,9
Other³⁾	237	1 412	15 241	103 932	103,6	205 723	99,2
Main offices and auxiliary offices	-	5 429	-	-	-	-	-

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

3) 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), THIRD QUARTER OF 2009

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

	Outlets	Persons in employment¹⁾	Seats	Turnover, thousand kuna
	Outlets	Persons in employment¹⁾	Seats	VII. – IX. 2009.	Indices VII. – IX. 2009. VII. – IX. 2008.	I. – IX. 2009.	Indices I. – IX. 2009. I. – IX. 2008.

I Accommodation and food service activities	13 628	38 734	574 767	1 652 380	92,5	3 761 481	91,9
Hotel and restaurant activities	13 297	38 351	574 767	1 630 087	93,0	3 705 183	92,4
Other activities	331	383	-	22 293	66,2	56 298	66,5

56.1 Restaurants and mobile food service activities	3 552	12 548	180 698	564 843	85,0	1 209 763	85,6
Hotel and restaurant activities	3 483	12 475	180 698	563 675	85,8	1 206 956	87,0
Other activities	69	73	-	1 168	15,2	2 807	10,5

56.3 Beverage serving activities	9 069	23 785	371 405	945 061	98,6	2 304 129	97,1
Hotel and restaurant activities	8 838	23 506	371 405	924 609	99,1	2 251 507	97,2
Other activities	231	279	-	20 452	80,0	52 622	91,9

Other	1 007	2 401	22 664	142 476	87,5	247 589	80,4
Hotel and restaurant activities	976	2 370	22 664	141 803	87,3	246 720	80,3
Other activities	31	31	-	673	158,7	869	124,7

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

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

	Outlets	Persons in employment¹⁾	Seats	Turnover, thousand kuna
	Outlets	Persons in employment¹⁾	Seats	VII. – IX. 2009.	Indices VII. – IX. 2009. VII. – IX. 2008.	I. – IX. 2009.	Indices I. – IX. 2009. I. – IX. 2008.

Total	13 297	38 351	574 767	1 630 087	93,0	3 705 183	92,4

Hotels and all-suite hotels	67	316	2 841	20 970	32,3	34 665	26,5
Boarding houses	50	323	4 609	23 142	121,3	43 697	151,1
Camping sites and small camps	41	64	920	6 186	51,4	8 045	60,6
Overnight accommodations	9	62	648	1 933	41,6	5 951	44,2
Hostels	4	13	-	954	-	2 900	-
Other accommodation facilities²⁾	570	761	3 338	50 125	143,6	73 760	141,6
Inns	104	481	6 810	27 165	66,0	43 633	50,3
Restaurants	1 399	7 734	117 026	379 494	103,6	772 131	93,6
Pizzerias	414	1 772	23 281	82 239	84,1	170 638	82,2
Bistros	465	1 563	25 480	66 923	83,1	138 526	74,2
Pastry shops	204	552	5 428	21 693	45,9	48 847	62,7
Fast food	688	1 516	10 627	53 485	75,7	125 333	81,3
Cafes	6 933	16 059	267 038	600 955	104,6	1 607 906	107,5
Beer halls	73	256	3 461	7 142	101,3	19 458	109,7
Buffets	590	1 546	28 193	62 024	76,2	123 753	71,9
Canteens	72	102	3 320	3 724	93,5	15 473	100,4
Catering	83	286	295	10 072	34,7	30 373	36,1
Other³⁾	1 531	4 945	71 452	211 861	97,6	440 094	98,5

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

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

3) 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

3. COEFFICIENT OF VARIANCE AND STANDARD ERROR FOR SOME VARIABLES, TRADESMEN, THIRD QUARTER OF 2009

	Coefficient of variance, %	Estimation of total	Lower reliability interval limit	Upper reliability interval limit	Standard error

Tradesmen

Outlets	0,9	13 628	13 390	13 866	121
Turnover	2,9	1 652 380	1 556 794	1 747 968	48 724
Number of employed persons	2,1	38 734	37 132	40 335	816
Number of seats	2,3	574 767	548 675	600 857	13 299

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 organisations etc.); health care organisations, (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 organisations engaged in health and recreative tourism (users are charged for services); organisations 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.

The Address Book of Reporting Units has been formed on the basis of the Register of Business Entities. It is updated every year according to the Fina data (annual report on income tax, the most recent situation in 2007).

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.

All data based on sample methods show a certain degree of unreliability. A sampling error is shown in table 3. Apart from the sampling error, data are influenced by non-sampling error due to obsolete frameworks and its errors, errors in data reporting as well as errors occurring during data editing and estimation process.

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, which 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 specified 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)

Fina Financial Agency

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, THIRD QUARTER OF 2009

Seats