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About the statistics
Definitions
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Name and topic
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Name: Accommodation on Svalbard
Topic: Transport and tourism
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Responsible division
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Transport, Tourism and ICT Statistics
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Definitions of the main concepts and variables
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The number of hotels corresponds to the number of establishments open to the public at least one day during the reference period.
Beds and rooms correspond to the number of beds and rooms in hotels open to the public.
Utilisation of bed capacity corresponds to the number of guest nights in per cent of the number of available beds, where the number of available beds is the number of beds multiplied by the establishment's number of open days during the reference period.
Utilisation of room capacity corresponds to the number of occupied rooms in per cent of the number of available rooms, where the number of available rooms is the number of rooms multiplied by the establishment's number of open days during the reference period.
Guest night: One person accommodated one night.
The nationality of the guest is his/her country of residence, not citizenship.
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Standard classifications
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Lodging turnover is exclusive of turnover for food, regardless of meals being included in the sales price.
There may be changes in capacity during the year. On the basis of information on bed and room capacity per month, the annual or seasonal capacity is calculated as a monthly average.
The statistics is published with Accommodation.