Overnight accommodation; guests, overnight stays, occupancy, key figures
| Periods | Hotel/boarding house/youth hostel Business related overnight stays (x 1 000) | Hotel/boarding house/youth hostel Occupancy (%) |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 November | 1,500 | 50.1 |
| 2024 December | 1,170 | 46.3 |
| 2025 January* | 1,210 | 41.0 |
| 2025 February* | 1,180 | 44.7 |
| 2025 March* | 1,450 | 49.2 |
| 2025 April* | 1,510 | 61.4 |
| 2025 May* | 1,550 | 57.7 |
| 2025 June* | 1,610 | 60.1 |
| 2025 July* | 1,260 | 61.1 |
| 2025 August* | 1,270 | 66.8 |
| 2025 September* | 1,570 | 56.3 |
| 2025 October* | 1,690 | 55.7 |
| Source: CBS. | ||
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 2025 are provisional and all other figures are final.
Changes as of 11 December 2025:
The provisional figures for October 2025 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.
Description topics
- Hotel/boarding house/youth hostel
- Hotel, motel, boarding house, apartment with hotel services, youth accommodation or bed & breakfast.
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.- Business related overnight stays
- The number of business related overnight stays is calculated with the help of the percentage of business related overnight stays provided by the accommodations.
- 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%.