Accommodation Establishments

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Accommodation Establishments - activity of the accommodation establishments
Contact
Contact organisation	National Statistical Institute
Contact organisation unit	"Statistics of tourism and bussines surveys" Department
Contact name	Lidia Sandeva
Contact person function	State Expert
Contact mail address	2, P. Volov Str., 1038 Sofia, Bulgaria
Contact email address	[email protected]
Contact phone number	+359 2 9857 681
Contact fax number	No
Metadata update
Metadata last certified	20 November 2013
Metadata last posted	20 November 2013
Metadata last update	30 March 2017
Statistical presentation
Data description	Arrivals of visitors, nights spent, revenues from nights spent, bed-places and available bed-nights, number of accommodation establishments.
Classification system	· Classification of Territorial Units for Statistical Purposes in Bulgaria (NUTS); · Unified Classification of Administrative-Territorial and Territorial Units (UCATTU).
Sector coverage	All accommodation establishments with 10 and more bed-places - hotels, camping sites, other accommodation establishments (holiday settlements, mountain chalets, pravite flats, rest houses, bungalows and other short-time accommodation).
Statistical concepts and definitions	Arrivals and nights spent by Bulgarian and foreign residents, bed-places and available bed-nights, revenues from nights spent by Bulgarian and foreign residents.
Statistical unit	Accommodation establishment
Statistical population	All categorized accommodation establishments with 10 and more bed-places in use.
Reference area	The territory of Republic of Bulgaria.
Time coverage	· Quarterly - from the first quarter of 2008 till the fourth quarter of 2011; · Monthly - from January 2012; · Annually - from 2008.
Base period	2008
Unit of measure
Number, BGN
Reference period
· Quarter - till the end of 2011; · Month - since January 2012; · Year.
Institutional mandate
Legal acts and other agreements	Till the end of 2011 - Directive 95/57 EC; Since January 2012 - Regulation 692/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning European statistics on tourism and Commission implementing Regulation 1051/2011 implementing Regulation 692/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning European statistics on tourism, as regards the structure of the quality reports and the transmission of the data.
Data sharing	Not applicable
Confidentiality
Confidentiality - policy	· Law on Statistics; · Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20(4)) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p. 164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society.
Confidentiality - data treatment	Individual data are not published in accordance with article 25 of the Law on Statistics. The publishing of individual data can be performed only in accordance with article 26 of the same law.
Release policy
Release calendar	The date for publishing of statistical information is indicated in the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute. The statistical information on the activity of the accommodation establishments is published monthly: a month after the reference period on the website of the NSI.
Release calendar access	The calendar is available on the NSI website: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/480
User access	The data are published on the NSI website, section Domain statistics - Tourism in accordance with the Law on Statistics and the European Statistics Code of Practice respecting the professional independence and aimed at objectivity, transparency and equal treatment of all consumers.
Frequency of dissemination
· Quarterly -till the end of 2011; · Monthly - from the January 2012.
Accessibility and clarity
News release	· Quarterly -till the end of 2011; · Monthly - from the January 2012.
Publications	Statistital Reference Book; Statistical Yearbook.
On-line database	Data on accommodation establishments are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Domain statistics - Tourism - Accommodation Establishments: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/7060
Micro-data access	Micro data are not disseminated.
Other	Not applicable
Documentation on methodology	Methodology of the survey
Quality documentation	Not available.
Quality management
Quality assurance	Not applicable
Quality assessment	Not applicable
Relevance
User needs	The users are the Council of Ministers, Ministry of Tourism, the districts? and municipalities? authorities, tourist organizations, science organizations, international organizations and others.
User satisfaction	The users satisfaction survey is not carried out.
Completeness	All data according to Regulation 692/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning European statistics on tourism are provided.
Accuracy and reliability
Overall accuracy	The statistical survey is exhaustively.
Sampling error	Not applicable.
Non-sampling error	Not applicable.
Timeliness and punctuality
Timeliness	The data are submitted to Eurostat 2 months after the reference months according to Commission implementing Regulation 1051/2011 implementing Regulation 692/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning European statistics on tourism, as regards the structure of the quality reports and the transmission of the data.
Punctuality	The publication dates by point 15.1 are observed.
Coherence and comparability
All indicators are camparable by years, statistical regions, districts and municipalities.
Comparability - geographical	The data are elaborated according to the administrative structure of the Republic of Bulgaria as of 31.12. of reference year.
Comparability - over time	The data are calculated by common methodology and are comparable by years.
Coherence - cross domain	Not applicable.
Coherence - internal	Not applicable.
Cost and burden
Not applicable.
Data revision
Data revision - policy	Not applicable.
Data revision - practice	Not applicable.
Statistical processing
Source data	All categorized accommodation establishments with 10 and more bed-places in use.
Frequency of data collection	Quarterly -till the end of 2011. Monthly - from the January 2012.
Data collection	Exhaustively.
Data validation	Not applicable.
Data compilation	The data are aggregated to the level of municipalities, districts and total for the country.
Adjustment	Not applicable.
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Accommodation Establishments - activity of the accommodation establishments
Contact
Contact organisation	National Statistical Institute
Contact organisation unit	"Statistics of tourism and bussines surveys" Department
Contact name	Lidia Sandeva
Contact person function	State Expert
Contact mail address	2, P. Volov Str., 1038 Sofia, Bulgaria
Contact email address	[email protected]
Contact phone number	+359 2 9857 681
Contact fax number	No
Statistical presentation
Data description	Arrivals of visitors, nights spent, revenues from nights spent, bed-places and available bed-nights, number of accommodation establishments.
Classification system	· Classification of Territorial Units for Statistical Purposes in Bulgaria (NUTS); · Unified Classification of Administrative-Territorial and Territorial Units (UCATTU).
Sector coverage	All accommodation establishments with 10 and more bed-places - hotels, camping sites, other accommodation establishments (holiday settlements, mountain chalets, pravite flats, rest houses, bungalows and other short-time accommodation).
Statistical concepts and definitions	Arrivals and nights spent by Bulgarian and foreign residents, bed-places and available bed-nights, revenues from nights spent by Bulgarian and foreign residents.
Statistical unit	Accommodation establishment
Statistical population	All categorized accommodation establishments with 10 and more bed-places in use.
Reference area	The territory of Republic of Bulgaria.
Time coverage	· Quarterly - from the first quarter of 2008 till the fourth quarter of 2011; · Monthly - from January 2012; · Annually - from 2008.
Base period	2008
Statistical processing
Source data	All categorized accommodation establishments with 10 and more bed-places in use.
Frequency of data collection	Quarterly -till the end of 2011. Monthly - from the January 2012.
Data collection	Exhaustively.
Data validation	Not applicable.
Data compilation	The data are aggregated to the level of municipalities, districts and total for the country.
Adjustment	Not applicable.
Quality management
Quality assurance	Not applicable
Quality assessment	Not applicable
Relevance
User needs	The users are the Council of Ministers, Ministry of Tourism, the districts? and municipalities? authorities, tourist organizations, science organizations, international organizations and others.
User satisfaction	The users satisfaction survey is not carried out.
Completeness	All data according to Regulation 692/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning European statistics on tourism are provided.
Data completeness - rate	Not applicable.
Accuracy and reliability
Overall accuracy	The statistical survey is exhaustively.
Sampling error	Not applicable.
Sampling errors - indicators	Not applicable.
Non-sampling error	Not applicable.
Coverage error	Not applicable.
Over-coverage - rate	Not applicable.
Common units - proportion	Not applicable.
Measurement error	Not applicable.
Non response error	Not applicable.
Unit non-response - rate	Not applicable.
Item non-response - rate	Not applicable.
Processing error	Not applicable.
Imputation - rate	Not applicable.
Model assumption error	Not applicable.
Seasonal adjustment	Not applicable.
Data revision - policy	Not applicable.
Data revision - practice	Not applicable.
Data revision - average size	Not applicable.
Timeliness and punctuality
Timeliness	The data are submitted to Eurostat 2 months after the reference months according to Commission implementing Regulation 1051/2011 implementing Regulation 692/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning European statistics on tourism, as regards the structure of the quality reports and the transmission of the data.
Time lag - first results	Not applicable.
Time lag - final results	40 days after the reference period.
Punctuality	The publication dates by point 15.1 are observed.
Punctuality - delivery and publication	Monthly and annualy data are presented according to the Calendar of data dissemination.
Coherence and comparability
All indicators are camparable by years, statistical regions, districts and municipalities.
Comparability - geographical	The data are elaborated according to the administrative structure of the Republic of Bulgaria as of 31.12. of reference year.
Asymmetry for mirror flows statistics - coefficient	Not applicable.
Comparability - over time	The data are calculated by common methodology and are comparable by years.
Length of comparable time series	Monthly data are comperable from January 2012. Annual data are comperable from 2007.
Coherence - cross domain	Not applicable.
Coherence - sub annual and annual statistics	Annual data on nights spent, arrivals and revenues at accommodation establishments are the sum of monthly data.
Coherence - National Accounts	Monthly and annualy data are consistent with national accounts.
Coherence - internal	Not applicable.
Accessibility and clarity
News release	· Quarterly -till the end of 2011; · Monthly - from the January 2012.
Publications	Statistital Reference Book; Statistical Yearbook.
On-line database	Data on accommodation establishments are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Domain statistics - Tourism - Accommodation Establishments: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/7060
Data tables - consultations	No information.
Micro-data access	Micro data are not disseminated.
Other	Not applicable
Metadata - consultations	No information.
Documentation on methodology	Methodology of the survey
Metadata completeness – rate	Not applicable.
Quality documentation	Not available.
Cost and burden
Not applicable.
Confidentiality
Confidentiality - policy	· Law on Statistics; · Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20(4)) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p. 164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society.
Confidentiality – data treatment	Individual data are not published in accordance with article 25 of the Law on Statistics. The publishing of individual data can be performed only in accordance with article 26 of the same law.
Comment

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Activity of accommodation establishments in August 2019

Thursday, 10 October 2019 - 11:00

In August 2019, 3 391 accommodation establishments - hotels, motels, camping sites, mountain chalets and other establishments for short-term accommodation with more than 10 bed-places were functioned in the country. The total number of the rooms in them was 141.7 thousand and the bed-places were 325.4 thousand. In comparison with August 2018, the total number of accommodation establishments (functioned during the period) increased by 5.0%, and the bed-places in them - by 1.5%.

The total number of the nights spent in all accommodation establishments registered in August 2019 was 6 410.5 thousand, or by 5.4% more in comparison with the same month of the previous year.

The total revenues from nights spent in August 2019 reached 377.8 million BGN or by 8.6% more compared to August 2018.

Accommodation2019-08_en_5FWV32K.pdf
Trips of Bulgarian Residents Abroad and Arrivals of Visitors from Abroad to Bulgaria in August 2019

Friday, 27 September 2019 - 11:00

In August 2019, the number of the trips of Bulgarian residents abroad was 755.4 thousand or by 2.5% above the registered in August 2018. The trips with holiday and recreation purposes in August 2019 composed the greatest share of the total number of trips of Bulgarian residents abroad - 45.7%, followed by those with other purposes (as a guest, education and visit the cultural and sport events) - 40.3%, and with professional purpose - 14.0%.

In August 2019, the number of arrivals of visitors from abroad to Bulgaria was 2 325.2 thousand or by 3.8% more in comparison with August 2018. In August 2019, the predominant share of the visits with holiday and recreation purpose was 56.8%, followed by trips with other purposes - 35.8%, and with professional purpose - 7.4%.

Tourism2019-08_en_PF8ITNJ.pdf
Activity of accommodation establishments in July 2019

Wednesday, 11 September 2019 - 11:00

In July 2019, 3 391 accommodation establishments - hotels, motels, camping sites, mountain chalets and other establishments for short-term accommodation with more than 10 bed-places were functioned in the country. The total number of the rooms in them was 141.8 thousand and the bed-places were 324.4 thousand. In comparison with July 2018, the total number of accommodation establishments (functioned during the period) increased by 5.8%, and the bed-places in them - by 3.7%.

The total number of the nights spent in all accommodation establishments registered in July 2019 was 5 952.1 thousand, or by 0.1% more in comparison with the same month of the previous year.

The total revenues from nights spent in July 2019 reached 345.8 million BGN or by 2.9% more compared to July 2018.

Accommodation2019-07_en_SG5L5WI.pdf
Trips of Bulgarian Residents Abroad and Arrivals of Visitors from Abroad to Bulgaria in July 2019

Tuesday, 27 August 2019 - 11:00

In July 2019, the number of the trips of Bulgarian residents abroad was 779.5 thousand or by 7.2% above the registered in July 2018. The trips with other purposes (as a guest, education and visit the cultural and sport events) in July 2019 composed the greatest share of the total number of trips of Bulgarian residents abroad - 40.7%, followed by those with holiday and recreation purpose - 39.7%, and with professional purpose - 19.6%.

In July 2019, the number of arrivals of visitors from abroad to Bulgaria was 2 083.1 thousand or by 3.2% less in comparison with July 2018. In July 2019, the predominant share of the visits with holiday and recreation purpose was 55.5%, followed by trips with other purposes - 36.7%, and with professional purpose - 7.8%.

Tourism2019-07_en_E91AWYS.pdf
Tourist Trips and Tourism-related Expenditure of the Population in Second Quarter of 2019 (preliminary data)

Thursday, 22 August 2019 - 11:00

In the second quarter of 2019, 1 219.8 thousand Bulgarian residents made tourist trips. The majority (75.7%) of them travelled only within the country, 19.1% - only abroad and 5.2% - both in the country and abroad. Compared to the same quarter of 2018 the total number of the travelled persons aged 15 and over increased by 12.4%.

Trips2019q2_en_R745VEU.pdf
Activity of accommodation establishments in June 2019

Monday, 12 August 2019 - 11:00

In June 2019, 3 018 accommodation establishments - hotels, motels, camping sites, mountain chalets and other establishments for short-term accommodation with more than 10 bed-places were functioned in the country. The total number of the rooms in them was 135.2 thousand and the bed-places were 304.1 thousand. In comparison with June 2018, the total number of accommodation establishments (functioned during the period) increased by 4.4%, and the bed-places in them - by 4.9%.

The total number of the nights spent in all accommodation establishments registered in June 2019 was 4 036.7 thousand, or by 0.7% less in comparison with the same month of the previous year.

The total revenues from nights spent in June 2019 reached 205.4 million BGN or by 2.6% more compared to June 2018.

Accommodation2019-06_en_2YMBTGT.pdf
Trips of Bulgarian Residents Abroad and Arrivals of Visitors from Abroad to Bulgaria in June 2019

Monday, 29 July 2019 - 11:00

In June 2019, the number of the trips of Bulgarian residents abroad was 717.1 thousand or by 5.9% above the registered in June 2018. The trips with other purposes (as a guest, education and visit the cultural and sport events) in June 2019 composed the greatest share of the total number of trips of Bulgarian residents abroad - 41.6%, followed by those with holiday and recreation purpose - 35.6%, and with professional purpose - 22.8%.

In June 2019, the number of arrivals of visitors from abroad to Bulgaria was 1 537.0 thousand or by 0.9% less in comparison with June 2018. In June 2019, the predominant share of the visits with holiday and recreation purpose was 50.1%, followed by trips with other purposes - 36.0%, and with professional purpose - 13.9%.

Tourism2019-06_en_AMUPZRU.pdf
Activity of accommodation establishments in May 2019

Wednesday, 10 July 2019 - 11:30

In May 2019, 2 328 accommodation establishments - hotels, motels, camping sites, mountain chalets and other establishments for short-term accommodation with more than 10 bed-places were functioned in the country. The total number of the rooms in them was 107.6 thousand and the bed-places were 236.2 thousand. In comparison with May 2018, the total number of accommodation establishments (functioned during the period) decreased by 0.7%, while the bed-places in them increased by 1.0%.

The total number of the nights spent in all accommodation establishments registered in May 2019 was 1 449.4 thousand, or by 7.8% less in comparison with the same month of the previous year.

The total revenues from nights spent in May 2019 reached 76.2 million BGN or by 2.6% less compared to May 2018.

Podslon2019-05_en_UN4OW2B.pdf
Trips of Bulgarian Residents Abroad and Arrivals of Visitors from Abroad to Bulgaria in May 2019

Thursday, 27 June 2019 - 11:00

In May 2019, the number of the trips of Bulgarian residents abroad was 762.1 thousand or by 4.6% above the registered in May 2018. The trips with other purposes (as a guest, education and visit the cultural and sport events) in May 2019 composed the greatest share of the total number of trips of Bulgarian residents abroad - 39.1%, followed by those with holiday and recreation purpose - 33.5%, and with professional purpose - 27.4%.

In May 2019, the number of arrivals of visitors from abroad to Bulgaria was 946.7 thousand or by 0.9% more in comparison with May 2018. In May 2019, the predominant share of the visits with other purposes was 41.9%, followed by trips with holiday and recreation purpose - 38.4%, and with professional purpose - 19.7%.

Tourism2019-05_en_SX63ABP.pdf
Activity of accommodation establishments in April 2019

Monday, 10 June 2019 - 11:00

In April 2019, 2 052 accommodation establishments - hotels, motels, camping sites, mountain chalets and other establishments for short-term accommodation with more than 10 bed-places were functioned in the country. The total number of the rooms in them was 74.6 thousand and the bed-places were 157.9 thousand. In comparison with April 2018, the total number of accommodation establishments (functioned during the period) increased by 0.7%, and the bed-places in them - by 10.0%.

The total number of the nights spent in all accommodation establishments registered in April 2019 was 962.7 thousand, or by 7.6% more in comparison with the same month of the previous year.

The total revenues from nights spent in April 2019 reached 51.7 million BGN or by 9.9% more compared to April 2018.

Podslon2019-04_en_UN4OW2B.pdf

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