Culture, leisure, sport and tourism
The section
reports statistics on cultural and arts institutions, and publication of printed
editions. It also shows statistics on sanatoria and health resorts, leisure and
sport and tourism facilities in
Cultural institutions
comprise theatres, philharmonic societies, television and radio broadcasting
companies, cinemas, publishing houses, museums, libraries, club institutions,
circuses, parks for recreation and leisure,
schools of aesthetic education (elementary
specialised art educational institutions).
Cinemas
are
institutions for public viewing of
films (cinemas, urban and rural film projectors, video halls and video units).
Exhibition
centres
are
institutions whose main activity is to organise exhibitions, and provide
services related to the design and conduct of exhibitions (fairs). Exhibition
centers should employ qualified staff and have relevant material and technical
base (special exhibition areas and equipment). They can lease these areas and
equipment for exhibitions and fairs to be held.
Organisers of
exhibitions
are enterprises that according to their statute are engaged in the design of
exhibitions on the budget, commercial or mixed basis.
Exhibitions
are activities associated with demonstration of products and services to be
promoted on the domestic and international market with the purpose of studying
the situation on the market.
Fairs
are activities directly connected with trade (retail or wholesale) that are
carried out in a specific place at the fixed dates.
Collective accommodation facilities
are
accommodation facilities whish provide places for overnight halt in the room or
other premises. Collective accommodation facilities are split into hotels and
similar accommodation
facilities
(hotels,
motels,
hostels, camping sites, tourist camps, other places for hot-bedding)
and specialised accommodation facilities
(sanatoria,
boarding houses with care, prophylactic sanatoria,
annual children’s
health facilities,
child centers,
houses,
boarding houses,
recreation camps and other recreation institutions).
Sanatoria and rest institutions with medical care
are medical and prophylactic institutions equipped with beds for patients
undergoing rehabilitation treatment, mainly on the basis of a healing natural
environment. These institutions are specialised and can be either for one
ailment or multi-purpose. The institutions also have beds equipped with
necessary supplies for the month of their maximum use.
Rest facilities and leisure houses
are institutions designed to provide rest for the population and may include
food and lodging or lodging only. These facilities may be available to the
population all year or seasonally. Places are reported for the month of maximum
use.
Child care centers for health improvement and recreation
are permanently or temporarily active centers specially organised or adapted to
be intended for rehabilitation, recreation, child development; they have a
special location, logistics, staff and equipment allowing to provide the
services necessary for health improvement and recreation of children. Child
sanatoriums, child centers and countryside centers for health improvement and
recreation are the child health improvement institutions. Day care camps, child
care centers and tent camps are part of child recreation facilities.
Sports
school
is a component of system for physical training and sports
that gives knowledge, shapes and secures individual’s needs in creative
self-actualisation of sporting capabilities and skills of children and the young
in order to train sportsmen of high qualification.
Tourists
are persons who visit places located at a distance from their usual places of
residence during a period that does not exceed one year. The trips that tourists
take are for pleasure and vacation, treatment, sports and health improvement,
visiting friends and relatives, settling business matters, etc.
Excursion participants
are persons who take organised tours in