How to Attract Visitors during the “Slow Growth” of Prague City Tourism

In most respects 2016 was a good year for tourism not least in the Czech capital, which saw yet another increase in the number of visitors.

Release time : 2017-10-30 15:47:36

source : World Tourism Cities

who are coming only as visitors. They come in the morning and in the afternoon the same day, they will go home.

And this is very problematic for a small city like Prague, because we have a small historic centre, the streets are all very close, or tight, not like in bigger cities such as Vienna or Paris or London.

And for us this is it is very complicated in some times of the year with how full is the city.

Q: So it is congested you are saying, a lot of the time there are many people here at the same time.

A: Yes it is, and of course, most of them are coming in the high season, from April to October. Our target is to have a longer season.

We shall prepare some exhibitions and performances in the low season, from November until February.

We would also like to show other parts of the city to tourists, who remain mostly in the centre. This is a new progress, we must prepare new routes and new trips to other parts of the city.

We have a lot of interesting buildings there but it is the matter of showing them, so the tourists stay in the city and have a lovely time in the other parts, not only in the centre.

Q: You may say that they are missing out if they only see the main sights, there are hidden secrets here.

A: Yes, yes.

Q: Which leads into my next question because obviously, the main sights are not going to change anytime soon, Charles Bridge, Prague Castle, Malá Strana. Those are the initial draws. Is it fair to say that the kind of quintessential Prague experience that some of us had 15 or 20 years ago that that has changed? It is not just the historic sights now, it is not just the lunch and dinner with the pork and dumplings and beer. Is that changed?

A: Yes it is, now we have a lot of other possibilities in gastronomy. We have a lot of restaurants, special bars, night clubs. Also places in other parts of the city, for example Prague 7 or Prague 8. It is a new area for tourists, they have not seen it until now and it is some very good