Press Release
For the Hotel Survey 2000

The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics is pleased to disseminate the main findings of the Hotel Survey for 2000. Similarly to the previous times we have published data, this release aims at giving the public an overall idea of the most important indicators in Hotel Survey, mainly the Number of Guests, Average number of workers, Percentage occupancy of rooms, and other main indicators.

As figures indicate, there are 116 hotels in Palestinian territory, 106 of them are in operation, include 4708 bedrooms with 10063 beds. 43 of these hotels are located in Jerusalem include 1996 bedrooms with 4344 beds. Number of the persons engaged in these hotels amount to 2398 employee, also about 335711 guests had visited Palestine and spent 1016683 nights at these hotels.

In view of the Israeli closure on the Palestinian territory, it is quite obvious that the total number of guests decline by 75.6% in the 4^th quarter of 2000 compared to the 3^rd quarter of the same year, and 71.2% compared to the 4^th quarter of 1999. The growth percentage of guests declined by 6.4%, and guest nights declined by 13.5%.

In 2000, the total number of guests to the Palestinian Territory reached 335711. 51.9% of them from the European union.

The number of persons employed as in December 2000 reached 2398 employee. 474 as administrators and 1924 as services workers.

Percentage occupancy of rooms declined by 69.6% for the 4^th quarter 2000 compared to 3^rd quarter 2000.

• The following are the most important indicators for the 4^th quarter compared to 3^rd of 2000:

• The following are the most important indicators for the 4^th quarter of 2000 compared to 4^th of 1999: