Despite the decrease in overnight stays, attendance in the Pilsen region increased

In the Pilsen Region, there was a year-on-year increase in visitors in the 1st quarter of 2024, but the number of overnight stays decreased. In an inter-regional comparison, the region had up to the ninth share of the total number of visitors in the Czech Republic. The average length of stay per guest has slightly shortened. Guests from Germany still represented the highest number of visitors from abroad.

Preliminary data show that a total of 154,705 guests visited the Pilsen Region in the 1st quarter of 2024. Compared to 2023, there was a slight increase in the number of visitors by 1.6%. The Pilsen region was visited by almost 59,000 people. foreign guests. The number of guests from abroad was higher by 4,327 people in this period, which meant an increase of 7.9%. In the case of domestic clientele, on the other hand, there was a decrease, namely by 1,819 guests (1.9%).

The Pilsen region accounted for 3.8% of the total number of visitors in the Czech Republic, which is the ninth largest share among regions. For a long time, Hl is still ranked among the most visited regions. the city of Prague, where 38.1% of all tourists were concentrated. The Královéhradecký, Jihomoravský and Karlovy Vary regions were among the other popular regions in the period from January to March 2024. On the contrary, the fewest visitors in this period went to Ústí, Pardubice and Vysočina.

Compared to Q1 2023, the number of guest arrivals increased in almost all regions. The exception was the Pardubice region, where attendance dropped by 1.6%. In relative terms, the largest number of guests increased in Prague (by 16.9%), Vysočín (by 15.0%) and the South Bohemian Region (by 14.2%).

Visitors to the Pilsen Region spent a total of 365,671 nights here in the first three months of 2024, which represents a decrease of more than 10,000 compared to the same period of the previous year. nights. When calculated per guest, the average number of overnight stays is 2.4 nights and the average length of stay is 3.4 dayswhich means a slight decrease compared to the 1st quarter of 2023. Overall, there was a shortening of the stay in the year-on-year comparison between January and March for both domestic guests and foreign visitors.

Within the individual regions, the longest number of overnight stays among tourists was located in the Karlovy Vary region, where mainly foreign guests stayed 3.8 nights. Conversely, visitors spent the fewest nights in the South Moravian region, where they stayed an average of only 1.7 nights.

Of the total number of 59.0 thousand of foreign tourists who visited the Pilsen Region in the 1st quarter of 2024, the majority were visitors from neighboring Germany. 30,769 of them visited our region and made up more than half of the total number of non-residents. Compared to the previous year, 2,676 more German guests arrived in the region between January and March 2024. A large number of guests from Slovakia, Taiwan, Poland and Italy also came here. The longest length of stay in the case of foreign tourists was mapped for guests from other American countries, Portugal, Mexico and Saudi Arabia.