Tourism; key indicators, National Accounts

Table explanation


This table contains contribution of tourism to the Dutch economy (employment, expenditure and value added at basic prices). Tourism is not an industry in itself, but covers a wide range of products and services. The figures are consistent with the conceptual framework of the National Accounts (NA) and can be compared with existing macroeconomic indicators such as the total value added at basic prises and employment in the Netherlands. The tourism accounts offer an integrated macroeconomic overview of the importance of tourism to the economy.

Data available from: 2010.

Status of the figures:
Data from 2010 up to and including 2021 are final. Data of 2022 and 2023 are provisional.

Changes as of 3 September 2024:
This is a new table. Statistics Netherlands has carried out a revision of the national accounts. The Dutch national accounts are recently revised. New statistical sources, methods and concepts are implemented in the national accounts, in order to align the picture of the Dutch economy with all underlying source data and international guidelines for the compilation of the national accounts. This table contains revised data. For further information see section 3.

When will new figures be published?
Provisional data are published 8 months after the end of the reporting year. Final data are released 20 months after the end of the reporting year.

Description topics

Value at current prices
Figures are expressed in prices of the relevant reporting year, million euro.
Tourism: expenditure NL economy total
Expenditure of tourism, both resident and non-resident, within the economic territory of the Netherlands (inbound and domestic).
A person is resident if he or she has a centre of economic interest in the economic territory of the Netherlands for more than one year.
A person is a non-resident if his or hers centre of economic activity is not in the economic territory of the Netherlands.
Recreational household expenditure
Tourist expenditure by Dutch households with recreational motive plus the tourism consumer durables.
Volume indices
The volume compared to the volume of the base year. Fixed prices, base year 2021.
Tourism: expenditure NL economy total
Expenditure of tourism, both resident and non-resident, within the economic territory of the Netherlands (inbound and domestic).
A person is resident if he or she has a centre of economic interest in the economic territory of the Netherlands for more than one year.
A person is a non-resident if his or hers centre of economic activity is not in the economic territory of the Netherlands.
Recreational household expenditure
Tourist expenditure by Dutch households with recreational motive plus the tourism consumer durables.
Contribution of tourism
The contribution of tourism in value added at basic prices and in the recreational expenditure of households.
Recreational household expenditure
The contribution of recreational consumption expenditure in the total consumption expenditure by households in the Netherlands.