Development of incoming tourism to the Czech Republic in 2008
From a tourism perspective, the year 2008 was greatly influenced by the strong Czech crown and, later, also by the economic recession. Despite these factors, as can be seen in data from the Czech Statistical Office, a total of 6,653,053 foreign tourists came to the Czech Republic last year. That means there was almost no change (−0.4%) in comparison to 2007. Likewise, the order of the first two places for the traditionally leading countries of Germany and Great Britain did not change from 2007. Nevertheless, the number of incoming tourists from both countries did decrease. Russia overtook Italy to rank third, recording more than 30% growth for the second successive year.Tourist arrivals in the Czech Republic for first three quarters of 2008
A total of 5,265,241 foreign tourists arrived in the Czech Republic through the first three quarters of 2008. This represents a 2.3% increase in comparison with 2007. While arrivals from traditional source countries such as Germany and Great Britain are falling, tourists from Russia and Poland are becoming the main drivers of incoming tourism. Thus emerges from data made available to the public by the Czech Statistical Office.The most visited tourist destinations in the Czech Republic – Prague Castle is No. 1
What are the most popular tourist destinations in the Czech Republic and in the individual regions? The CzechTourism Agency made up the hit-list of tourist destinations with the highest attendance rate in 2007. Almost all of the important tourist destinations achieved a growth in interest in the last year, by 12 % on average.
