Overnight accommodation; guests, overnight stays, occupancy, key figures

Overnight accommodation; guests, overnight stays, occupancy, key figures

Periods Total overnight accommodation Guests All countries (x 1 000) Total overnight accommodation Guests Netherlands (x 1 000) Total overnight accommodation Guests Foreign countries (x 1 000) Total overnight accommodation Overnight stays All countries (x 1 000) Total overnight accommodation Overnight stays Netherlands (x 1 000) Total overnight accommodation Overnight stays Foreign countries (x 1 000) Total overnight accommodation Occupancy (%)
2019 September 4,165 2,466 1,700 11,298 6,918 4,380 26.9
2020 September 3,235 2,509 725 10,408 7,990 2,417 25.3
2021 September 3,746 2,844 902 11,505 8,813 2,692 27.7
2022 September 4,420 2,862 1,558 12,957 8,323 4,634 31.1
2023 September 4,472 2,714 1,758 12,960 7,845 5,115 31.2
2024 September* 4,834 2,961 1,872 13,802 8,395 5,407 31.8
Source: CBS.
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Table explanation


This table presents an overview of the occupancy of accommodation and the number of guests and their overnight stays in the Netherlands in all hotels, motels, boarding houses, apartments with hotel services, youth accommodation and bed & breakfasts with at least 5 sleeping places, campsites with at least 4 pitches and holiday parks and group accommodation with at least 10 sleeping places. The figures can be broken down by type of accommodation.

Data available from: 2012

Status of the figures:
The figures for 2024 are provisional and all other figures are final.

Changes as of 11 November 2024:
The provisional figures for September 2024 have been added.

Changes as of 11 December 2023:
The provisional figures for September and October 2023 have been added.
Despite the care with which the figures and previous publications have been compiled about all overnight accommodation establishments in the Netherlands, it has been noticed that the published figures for the reporting periods April 2022 to August 2023 are incorrect.
Statistics Netherlands has published improved figures for the statistics on all overnight accommodation establishments in the Netherlands for the reporting periods April 2022 to August 2023.
Also the improved figures of the associated quarters and the figure for 2022 are published.

When will new figures be published?
Figures of a new month become available within three months after the end of that month, these are provisional figures. The figures for the complete year are revised one month after publication of the December figures, these are revised provisional figures. Two months later definite figures will be published.

Description topics

Total overnight accommodation
Total of all establishments providing overnight accommodation. These include hotels, motels, boarding houses, apartments with hotel services, youth accommodation, bed & breakfasts, campsites, holiday parks and group accommodation.

Hotel:
Tourist accommodation with at least 5 beds (usually in single or double rooms) on a night-to-night basis. Separate meals, snacks and drinks may be provided to guests as well as non-guests. A guest is someone who spends the night in the establishment. Other services provided are room service, daily bed-making and cleaning of sanitary facilities.

Motel:
Tourist accommodation at least 5 beds in with terraced rooms giving access to a car park place or common area, for guest accommodation on a night-to-night basis.

Boarding house:
Tourist accommodation with at least 5 beds (usually in single or double rooms) on a night-to-night basis. Separate meals, snacks and drinks can be provided only to guests who spent the night..
A threshold of at least 5 sleeping places is used.

Apartment with hotel services:
Apartment with at least 5 beds, providing cleaning and bed-making services during a stay

Youth accommodation:
Youth hotels and hostels with at least 5 beds.
A youth hotel is a hotel mainly for young guests providing sleeping facilities which do not have to be shared with others.
A youth hostel is an accommodation mainly for young guests providing sleeping facilities in dormitories that may have to be shared with others.

Bed & breakfast:
Private house with at least 5 beds for guests who can stay overnight and are given breakfast.

Campsite:
A campsite is an area where people can stay overnight in tents, touring and on-site caravans, camper vans and cabins.
A threshold of at least 4 camping pitches is used.

Holiday park:
An area with, holiday homes, cottages or apartments which are mainly rented out by the park management
Apartments with hotel services, are not included in holiday parks, but in hotels.
Apartments rented without hotel services, which are often part of a larger building, are included in holiday parks.
A threshold of at least 10 beds is used.

Group accommodation:
Accommodation providing lodging mainly for groups (not families), with at least 10 beds in rooms, dormitories , holiday chalets, cabin apartments or tents which guests may have to share with others.
The term ‘group accommodation’ includes:
- farms providing accommodation for groups on
- large holiday homes
- holiday camps
- nature camps
- stables
- sailing/outdoor adventure organisations.


Guests
A guest is a visitor who spends one or more consecutive nights in tourist accommodation. Guests do not include visitors who stay for more than two months. Asylum seekers and labour migrants are not included, even if they stay in accommodation for less than two months. Every month all tourists leaving in that month are counted, irrespective of the month in which they arrived. The same person may be counted more than once in the same accommodation or in different accommodation.
All countries
Netherlands
Dutch residents.
Foreign countries
Foreign residents.
Overnight stays
Every night that a guest spends in a tourist accommodation.

All countries
Netherlands
Dutch residents.
Foreign countries
Foreign residents.
Occupancy
The number of nights spent by tourists in a given period divided by the product of the number of sleeping places in accommodations (that are currently open for guests) and the number of days of the period in question.
For example, the number of nights spent in March amounts to 1800 overnight stays and the number of sleeping places in the open accommodations is 150.
The (net) occupancy rate in March is 1 800/(31 x 150), expressed as a percentage this results to 39%.