The Czech Republic had a record income from tourism last year

By: Trademagazin Date: 2024. 05. 24. 10:18

Last year, foreign tourists spent 174.9 billion crowns (2,798.4 billion forints) in the Czech Republic; the new record amount is 34.5 percent higher than a year earlier, while it exceeds the record revenues of 2019 before the coronavirus epidemic by 4.4 percent, according to a statement released by the state tourism agency Czech Tourism on Friday.

Czech tourists spent 171.3 billion crowns (2,740 billion forints) abroad, 47.7 percent more than in 2022 and 26.9 percent more than in 2019. Revenues and expenditures were now the highest since 2012, when the current statistical system was introduced.

Among foreign tourists, Germans (31.7 billion kroner), Slovaks (24.2 billion kroner) and Poles (22.6 billion kroner) spent the most, with Ukrainians (18.2 billion kroner) in fourth place. American tourists spent 6.9 billion crowns in the Czech Republic last year.