About 700,000 tourists visit Prague in December

About 700,000 tourists booked accomodiations in Prague in December. That’s 4.5 percent more than in December 2018 – the Prague City Tourism (PCT) company announced on Thursday.

According to the PCT, which deals with tourism in the Czech capital for decades, about 590 thousand foreign tourists and 110 thousand domestic Czech citizens visted Prague in December.

Most tourists arrive in Prague for the Christmas holidays, New Year’s Eve and New Year. The vast majority of foreign tourists come from Europe, mainly Germans, Russians, French, Italians, Austrians and Slovaks. (Kokes János, MTI)