Carry on camping: stay-at-home tourists drive end-of-season boom
4 years ago

Carry on camping: stay-at-home tourists drive end-of-season boom

Dutch News  

Dutch ‘staycationers’ ensured a record autumn season for the tourism sector as coronavirus restrictions limited their travel options. By contrast, hotels, which are more dependent on foreign visitors, saw bookings fall sharply, according to the statistics agency CBS. Groningen and Gelderland, two provinces mainly popular with domestic visitors, saw their bookings up by 33.5% and 21% respectively, while Noord-Holland, which is heavily dependent on Amsterdam’s international pull, recorded a drop of 34.1%. Campsites had 14.2% fewer foreign visitors than in 2019, but were amply compensated by a 40.2% surge in Dutch tourists, while the numbers on holiday parks almost exactly balanced out: 28.6% fewer visitors from abroad versus 29.7% more Dutch guests. Hotels received a small boost of 12.6% in domestic bookings, but that was not enough to compensate for a 54.7% drop in the number of foreign tourists.

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Bad weather causing spike in last-minute bookings for holidays in sunny destinations
6 months, 1 week ago

Bad weather causing spike in last-minute bookings for holidays in sunny destinations

NL Times  

The bad weather in the Netherlands and surrounding countries has caused a rush on last-minute bookings for trips to sunny destinations, according to the Holiday Monitor of review and booking site Zooever. Bookings to countries like Spain, Turkey, Greece, and Egypt were 2.5 times higher in May and June than in the same period last year. The number of last-minute …

Netherlands residents booked record number of trips abroad
1 year, 9 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 …

Tourism in Netherlands close to pre-Covid levels with hotel occupancy rising
1 year, 10 months ago

Tourism in Netherlands close to pre-Covid levels with hotel occupancy rising

NL Times  

The number of tourists who spent the night in Dutch accommodations last year increased by 40 percent to 44 million compared to 2021. Tourists spent a total of 127.8 million nights in Dutch accommodations - an increase of 26 percent compared to 2021 and 4 percent higher than 2019, which was already a record year. Dutch hotels accommodated 28 million …

Record number of tourists booked accommodation in Netherlands
2 years, 1 month ago

Record number of tourists booked accommodation in Netherlands

NL Times  

Dutch hotels, campsites, holiday parks, and group accommodations received 14.6 million guests in the third quarter - a new record for the third quarter. In the third quarter, 5.4 million international tourists stayed in Dutch accommodations, double compared to 2021 but still lower than before the coronavirus in 2019. The number of Dutch tourists who booked an overnight stay in …

More Dutch vacationing in the Netherlands, fewer Belgians and Germans
3 years ago

More Dutch vacationing in the Netherlands, fewer Belgians and Germans

NL Times  

Residents of the Netherlands vacationing in their own country last summer led to an increase in the number of guests at Dutch hotels, campsites, and other overnight locations. The number of foreign guests fell in the third quarter of the year by 13 percent compared to the previous year. Hotels, group accommodations, and camping and cottage parks combined received 5 …

NL residents massively booking autumn holidays abroad
3 years, 3 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 …

Overnight stays by tourists down 30 percent in 2020
3 years, 9 months ago

Overnight stays by tourists down 30 percent in 2020

NL Times  

Compared to the year prior, the number of overnight stays in accommodations decreased by 30 percent in 2020, data from Statistics Netherlands showed. During the second quarter of last year, when the first coronavirus wave hit the country, tourism was hit hardest with overnight stays decreasing by over 71 percent. Camping sites in the Netherlands only saw a four percent …

Staycation surge sees UK holiday bookings jump by 300%
3 years, 10 months ago

Staycation surge sees UK holiday bookings jump by 300%

The Independent  

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Following the announcement of a “roadmap” out of lockdown by the prime minister, UK travel companies …

Campsites benefiting from Dutch holidaying in NL; Hotels missing foreign tourists
4 years ago

Campsites benefiting from Dutch holidaying in NL; Hotels missing foreign tourists

NL Times  

After seeing a massive 93 percent decrease in overnight stays in April 2020, Dutch accommodations booked a record number of stays in July and August 2020 - even more than in the record year of 2019. By contrast, around 5.9 million Dutch people holidayed in the Netherlands in the third quarter, an increase of 24 percent Campsites and, to a …

Hotels and holiday parks report 72% drop in guests in Q2, Amsterdam hardest hit
4 years, 3 months ago

Hotels and holiday parks report 72% drop in guests in Q2, Amsterdam hardest hit

Dutch News  

Hotels, holiday parks and campsites in the Netherlands reported a 72% drop in the number of guests in the second quarter of this year, as the coronavirus crisis put paid to holiday plans. The figures, from national statistics agency CBS, cover every location offering at least five rooms to tourists, so do not include private holiday rentals. The CBS says …

NL tourist accommodations saw customers drop 72%
4 years, 4 months ago

NL tourist accommodations saw customers drop 72%

NL Times  

After a record year in 2019, the second quarter of 2020 was a tough one for tourist accommodations in the Netherlands. Due to the coronavirus and resulting travel restrictions, these accommodations received 72 percent fewer guests than in the same period last year. Amsterdam accommodations were hit hardest, seeing the number of visitors drop 92 percent, Statistics Netherlands reported on …

Tourist numbers will slump this year, as coronavirus fears keep holidaymakers away
4 years, 5 months ago

Tourist numbers will slump this year, as coronavirus fears keep holidaymakers away

Dutch News  

The Dutch tourism board expects the number of foreign tourists visiting the Netherlands this year to slump from the forecast 21 million to around six million because of the impact of coronavirus. The organisation’s latest survey shows that two in five Dutch people planning a holiday this year will stay in the Netherlands, but most are keen to avoid busy …

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