Hotels; guests, country of residence, star rating

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Star rating Periods Guests (x 1,000) Overnight stays (x 1,000)
Total 2019 October 2,745 4,857
2020 October 1,160 1,980
2021 October 2,386 4,244
2022 October 2,941 5,542
2023 October 2,865 5,579
2024 October* 2,918 5,633
Accommodations without stars 2019 October 223 433
2020 October 73 142
2021 October 163 336
2022 October 289 614
2023 October 233 475
2024 October* 233 488
1 star accommodations 2019 October 35 65
2020 October 13 21
2021 October 29 52
2022 October 33 59
2023 October 27 61
2024 October* 24 47
2 star accommodations 2019 October 119 229
2020 October 39 78
2021 October 104 207
2022 October 127 265
2023 October 145 298
2024 October* 111 214
3 star accommodations 2019 October 819 1,504
2020 October 310 551
2021 October 705 1,288
2022 October 814 1,551
2023 October 710 1,395
2024 October* 799 1,601
4 star accommodations 2019 October 1,378 2,349
2020 October 688 1,127
2021 October 1,283 2,193
2022 October 1,556 2,831
2023 October 1,578 3,016
2024 October* 1,605 3,003
5 star accommodations 2019 October 171 276
2020 October 37 60
2021 October 102 167
2022 October 123 222
2023 October 172 334
2024 October* 147 280
Source: CBS.
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Table explanation


This table presents an overview of 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. The figures can be broken down by country of residence of the guest, and by star rating. Figures are available for The Netherlands as a whole, and for the city of Amsterdam.

The breakdown by star rating is based on the opinion of the accommodation itself. The star rating does not have to be officially registered. The breakdown contains all types of accommodation mentioned above, not just hotels. The '5 stars' category contains 5 star hotels, but also for instance 5 star bed&breakfasts.

Break in series:
Figures on guests and overnight stays per star rating for the years until 2015, that were published before, were based on offical registrations of the number of stars by the 'Bedrijfschap Horeca en Catering'. This official registration does no longer exist. Therefore, Statistics Netherlands started asking accommodations about their number of stars in its annual survey. For this reason, the figures in this table are not directly comparable with figures published about the years until 2015.

Data available from: 2017

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

Changes as of 11 December 2024:
The provisional figures for October 2024 have been added.

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

Guests
A guest is a visitor who stays in a hotel or boarding house for at least one night.
Guests do not include:
- Permanent guests who stay in a hotel or boarding house for more than two months.
- Guests who have a permanent pitch on a camp site or rent a holiday home for more than two months.
- Asylum seekers, even those who stay in an accommodation for less than two months.
For each month the guests who checked out in that month will be counted in the survey, regardless of the month they arrived.
A person who stays in a hotel accommodation more than twice in a month (either the same establishment or different establishments) is counted as a guest each time.
Overnight stays
All guests spend nights in a overnight accommodation.