Almost no Dutch making plans for summer holidays: report
4 years, 9 months ago

Almost no Dutch making plans for summer holidays: report

NL Times  

Due to the coronavirus, most people in the Netherlands aren't even thinking about going away for the summer holidays. Travel organizations received virtually no bookings for the period between May and August, the Telegraaf reports after surveying various travel providers. "All questions to which we don't have the answer yet," Ramon van Reine of camping specialist ACSI said to the newspaper. TUI expects a catch-up in travel bookings in the autumn, spokesperson Petra Kok said to the newspaper. "There is enough interest again for September and October, also for example for air travel to Spain and other sun destinations," she said.

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Fewer holidays for 15% of Dutch households as prices continue dramatic rise this year
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Fewer holidays for 15% of Dutch households as prices continue dramatic rise this year

NL Times  

Spiraling costs are impacting Dutch household vacation planning, with roughly 15 percent of people in the Netherlands indicating they are either going on holiday less often, and 13 percent saying they plan on spending less on vacations in the coming year. Airline ticket prices and rising airport fees were among the main factors that forced Dutch households to spend about …

Three-week summer breaks are the norm in the Netherlands
1 year, 5 months ago

Three-week summer breaks are the norm in the Netherlands

Dutch News  

Three-week summer holidays away from work have become the norm in the Netherlands, news website Nu.nl reported on Monday. “Pay and conditions deals don’t include this and there is nothing in law to say it can’t be done,” employers’ advisory group AWVN told the website. “A worker can decide themselves what to do about their holiday and a request can …

Netherlands residents booked record number of trips abroad
1 year, 10 months ago

Netherlands residents booked record number of trips abroad

NL Times  

Netherlands residents massively booked holidays abroad in January. The number of bookings via a travel agency affiliated with the ANVR increased by 50 percent compared to last year, when coronavirus measures still restricted travel. But also compared to 2019 - the last year before the pandemic - the number of bookings increased by 13 percent, the ANVR said based on …

Almost all coronavirus vouchers for canceled package holidays redeemed
2 years, 3 months ago

Almost all coronavirus vouchers for canceled package holidays redeemed

NL Times  

Almost all travel vouchers issued during the coronavirus crisis for package holidays have been redeemed, BNR reports after speaking with the organizations involved. According to the foundation for guaranteeing travel vouchers SGR, travelers have redeemed between 300,000 and 350,000 vouchers, totaling in about 600 million euros. Issuing hundreds of thousands of travel vouchers after the coronavirus pandemic brought travel to …

NL residents massively booking autumn holidays abroad
3 years, 4 months ago

NL residents massively booking autumn holidays abroad

NL Times  

Netherlands residents are massively aiming for an autumn in the sun. Travel organizations are currently seeing the number of bookings double compared to this time last year, De Telegraaf reported. The summer holidays were disappointing for many, as increasing coronavirus infections in some popular destinations, like parts of Spain for example, resulted in canceled trips. The Netherlands getting a dark …

Nearly half of Dutch planning domestic vacations through August
3 years, 8 months ago

Nearly half of Dutch planning domestic vacations through August

NL Times  

Many Dutch people plan to remain in the Netherlands during the May vacation period and the summer holiday, AD reported based on the findings from travel booking site Zoover. Research by Booking.com showed that the Dutch were mainly looking to celebrate Easter at domestic coastal destinations such as Noordwijk aan Zee, Zandvoort, Scheveningen and Texel. According to Zoover director Judith …

€400m 'voucher bank' to guarantee refunds for cancelled holidays
4 years, 1 month ago

€400m 'voucher bank' to guarantee refunds for cancelled holidays

Dutch News  

The cabinet is planning to invest €400 million in a bailout fund for travel operators who are unable to cover the cost of refunding tourists for holidays cancelled during the coronavirus crisis. Around a million Dutch residents have received vouchers as compensation for cancelled holidays since the outbreak began, worth a total of €1 billion. Erik Jan Reuver, director of …

€400m 'voucher bank' to guarantee refunds for cancelled holidays
4 years, 1 month ago

€400m 'voucher bank' to guarantee refunds for cancelled holidays

Dutch News  

The cabinet is planning to invest €400 million in a bailout fund for travel operators who are unable to cover the cost of refunding tourists for holidays cancelled during the coronavirus crisis. Around a million Dutch residents have received vouchers as compensation for cancelled holidays since the outbreak began, worth a total of €1 billion. Erik Jan Reuver, director of …

"Voucher bank" to guarantee refunds for travelers' canceled packaged holidays: report
4 years, 1 month ago

"Voucher bank" to guarantee refunds for travelers' canceled packaged holidays: report

NL Times  

The Dutch government is launching a "voucher bank" to make sure that travelers who got a voucher from their travel agency after their package holiday was canceled in the coronavirus pandemic, will eventually get their money back, even if the tour operator can't pay the refund, De Telegraaf reported after getting access to the structure of this bank. The government …

Record amount paid into savings accounts during coronavirus crisis
4 years, 6 months ago

Record amount paid into savings accounts during coronavirus crisis

NL Times  

In May, Netherlands residents paid a total of 9.4 billion euros into their savings account - the biggest amount yet since central bank DNB started keeping track of this figure in 1998. Last may, 6.2 billion euros were paid into savings accounts, in 2018 it was 5 billion euros. The amount withdrawn from savings accounts was also much less than …

Fourth of all Dutch vacationers will go abroad, another fourth going nowhere
4 years, 7 months ago

Fourth of all Dutch vacationers will go abroad, another fourth going nowhere

NL Times  

A survey of 1,000 people showed that about 26 percent of people who had planned to take a summer holiday will still leave the country for their vacations. This week, a study from DVJ Insights for RTL Nieuws showed that slightly fewer than a quarter of respondents will take no holiday at all, while 29 percent will get their holiday-making …

Cancelled summer holidays may not be covered by insurance, travellers warned
4 years, 7 months ago

Cancelled summer holidays may not be covered by insurance, travellers warned

Dutch News  

Travellers who have to cancel their summer holidays if a second wave of coronavirus breaks out may not be able to reclaim on their insurance. Several companies have changed their policies to exclude trips that are affected by countries going back into lockdown over the summer, according to a survey by financial researchers MoneyView. Consumers will still be able to …

Cancelled summer holidays may not be covered by insurance, travellers warned
4 years, 7 months ago

Cancelled summer holidays may not be covered by insurance, travellers warned

Dutch News  

Travellers who have to cancel their summer holidays if a second wave of coronavirus breaks out may not be able to reclaim on their insurance. Several companies have changed their policies to exclude trips that are affected by countries going back into lockdown over the summer, according to a survey by financial researchers MoneyView. Consumers will still be able to …

Netherlands residents starting to book domestic vacations
4 years, 8 months ago

Netherlands residents starting to book domestic vacations

NL Times  

Holiday home rental companies are seeing a massive increase in Dutch booking vacations somewhere in the Netherlands. "You see that people are looking again at how they are going to fill in their summer," a spokesperson for rental company Landal said to NU.nl. The holiday home rental company expects that even more people will make bookings in the run-up to …

Holiday parks, campsites are expecting last-minute surge in summer bookings
4 years, 8 months ago

Holiday parks, campsites are expecting last-minute surge in summer bookings

Dutch News  

Coronavirus is likely to put holidays abroad on hold and boost stay-at-home breaks, with holiday parks, hotels and even campsites hoping for a surge in bookings. Many people whose holidays in the south of Europe are likely to be cancelled are looking into holidaying in the Netherlands, Baptiste van Outryve, from Roompot holiday parks, told the Volkskrant on Friday ‘We …

Holiday parks, campsites are expecting last-minute surge in summer bookings
4 years, 8 months ago

Holiday parks, campsites are expecting last-minute surge in summer bookings

Dutch News  

Coronavirus is likely to put holidays abroad on hold and boost stay-at-home breaks, with holiday parks, hotels and even campsites hoping for a surge in bookings. Many people whose holidays in the south of Europe are likely to be cancelled are looking into holidaying in the Netherlands, Baptiste van Outryve, from Roompot holiday parks, told the Volkskrant on Friday ‘We …

Over half of NL residents already canceled summer holiday plan; Foreign tourist bookings plummet
4 years, 9 months ago

Over half of NL residents already canceled summer holiday plan; Foreign tourist bookings plummet

NL Times  

The coronavirus is having a massive impact on the Netherlands' tourism sector. Nearly 60 percent of Netherlands residents have already decided to postpone their summer vacation plans, and half said they don't know if they'll go on vacation at all this year, the Netherlands' tourism board NBTC said based on a study by DVJ Insights. Covid-19 is also impacting foreign …

Nearly 10 million tourists visited Netherlands in the summer
5 years, 1 month ago

Nearly 10 million tourists visited Netherlands in the summer

NL Times  

Accommodations in the Netherlands attracted nearly 10 million tourists during the summer months of July and August this year, 4.4 percent more than in the same months last year. In total these guests accounted for nearly 35 million overnight stays, 7.6 percent more than last year, Statistics Netherlands reported on Monday. In these two months 5.53 million tourists from within …

Quarter of Dutch not going on summer vacation
6 years, 6 months ago

Quarter of Dutch not going on summer vacation

NL Times  

A quarter of Dutch people will not be going on summer vacation this year, according to the annual Vacation Survey by Nibud. Around 54 percent of Dutch skipping summer vacation this year, said that they couldn't afford it. According to Nibud, the number of people with a below average income who do not go on summer vacation is on the …

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