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INTERNAL TOURISM Section 1 CAPACITY OF TOURIST ACCOMMODATION ESTABLISHMENTS A. Variables and breakdowns to be transmitted B. Limitation of the scope (1) For ‘hotels and similar accommodation’ and for ‘holiday and other short-stay accommodation’, the scope of observation shall at least include all tourist accommodation establishments having 10 or more bed places.

(2) For ‘camping grounds, recreational vehicle parks and trailer parks’, the scope of observation shall at least include all tourist accommodation establishments having 10 or more pitches.

(3) Member States accounting for less than 1 % of the total annual number of nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments in the European Union may further reduce the scope of observation, to include at least all tourist accommodation establishments having 20 or more bed places (20 or more pitches). C. Periodicity The first reference year for the triennial variable listed under heading A(3) shall be 2015. Section 2 OCCUPANCY OF TOURIST ACCOMMODATION ESTABLISHMENTS (DOMESTIC AND INBOUND) A. Variables and breakdowns to be transmitted for annual data B. Variables and breakdowns to be transmitted for monthly data at national level

C. Limitation of the scope (1) For ‘hotels and similar accommodation’ and for ‘holidays and other short-stay accommodation’, the scope of observation shall at least include all tourist accommodation establishments having 10 or more bed places.

(2) For ‘camping grounds, recreational vehicle parks and trailer parks’, the scope of observation shall at least include all tourist accommodation establishments having 10 or more pitches.

(3) Member States accounting for less than 1 % of the total annual number of nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments in the European Union may further reduce the scope of observation, to at least include all tourist accommodation establishments having 20 or more bed places (20 or more pitches).

(4) Where a limitation to the scope as described under (1), (2) or (3) is applied, an estimate of the total number of nights spent during the reference year by residents and non-residents in the tourist accommodation establishments excluded from the scope of observation shall be transmitted annually.

(5) For the first reference year for which data is required by this Regulation, the estimate as described under (4) shall be transmitted within 12 months after the end of the reference period.

(6) Member States may further reduce the scope of observation for the net occupancy rate of bedrooms in hotels and similar accommodation, to include at least all tourist accommodation establishments having 25 or more bedrooms.

————— Section 3 CLASSIFICATIONS TO BE APPLIED FOR SECTION 1 AND SECTION 2 A. Type of accommodation The three categories to be used for type of accommodation, referring to NACE groups 55.1, 55.2 and 55.3, are:

— hotels and similar accommodation,

— holidays and other short-stay accommodation,

— camping grounds, recreational vehicle parks and trailer parks. B. Type of locality (a) The three categories to be used for type of locality (a), referring to the degree of urbanisation of the municipality (or equivalent local administrative unit) where the tourist accommodation establishments are located, are:

— densely populated area,

— intermediate area,

— thinly populated area. C. Type of locality (b)

The two categories to be used for type of locality (b), referring to the location close to the sea of the municipality (or equivalent local administrative unit) where the tourist accommodation establishments are located, are:

— coastal,

— non-coastal. D. Size class The three categories to be used for size class, referring to the number of bedrooms in the tourist accommodation establishments, are:

— small establishments: less than 25 bedrooms,

— medium-sized establishments: between 25 and 99 bedrooms,

— large establishments: 100 or more bedrooms; to be reported separately on an optional basis: ‘between 100 and 249 bedrooms’ and ‘250 or more bedrooms’. E. Countries and geographical areas The categories to be used for the country or the geographical area of residence of guests staying at tourist accommodation establishments are:

— European Union (the Union); to be reported separately: each Member State,

— European Free Trade Association (EFTA); to be reported separately: Iceland, Norway, Switzerland (including Liechtenstein),

— other European countries (apart from EU or EFTA; not including the United Kingdom, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine),

— the United Kingdom,

— Russia,

— Turkey,

— Ukraine,

— Africa; to be reported separately: South Africa,

— North America; to be reported separately: United States of America, Canada,

— South and Central America; to be reported separately: Brazil,

— Asia; to be reported separately: People’s Republic of China, Japan, Republic of Korea,

— Australia, Oceania and other territories; to be reported separately: Australia. F. Cities The cities for which data shall be transmitted shall be in accordance with Article 4b(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 and they shall include at least:

— those cities that, jointly, account for 90 % of the annual nights spent at tourism accommodation in cities in the country;

— the capital city;

— all cities with 200 000 inhabitants or more.

For this purpose, cities are those local administrative unit (LAU) where at least 50 % of the population lives in an urban centres; an urban centre is a cluster of contiguous grid cells of 1 km2 with a density of at least 1 500 inhabitants per km2 and collectively a population of at least 50 000 inhabitants. The Commission (Eurostat) together with the Member States shall regularly update the list of cities. Member States shall transmit the data for the most recent list of cities available on 31 December of the reference year. Section 4 INTERNAL TOURISM IN NON-RENTED ACCOMMODATION A. Variables to be transmitted for annual data [optional] Number of tourism nights spent in non-rented accommodation during the reference year. B. Breakdown [optional] The variable listed under heading A shall be broken down by country of residence of the visitors as far as Union residents are concerned, while visitors residing outside the Union shall be grouped in a single additional category.