Hotels; guests, country of residence, star rating

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Star rating Periods Guests (x 1,000) Overnight stays (x 1,000)
Total 2021 March 691 1,102
2022 March 2,029 3,623
2023 March 2,447 4,563
2024 March 2,620 4,980
2025 March** 2,630 4,999
2026 March* 2,641 4,886
Accommodations without stars 2021 March 34 68
2022 March 180 355
2023 March 198 389
2024 March 186 386
2025 March** 197 420
2026 March* 266 521
1 star accommodations 2021 March 8 13
2022 March 21 37
2023 March 21 43
2024 March 15 34
2025 March** 24 45
2026 March* 26 52
2 star accommodations 2021 March 22 43
2022 March 68 128
2023 March 128 258
2024 March 105 201
2025 March** 100 188
2026 March* 102 187
3 star accommodations 2021 March 175 300
2022 March 549 1,017
2023 March 610 1,174
2024 March 712 1,384
2025 March** 686 1,326
2026 March* 632 1,204
4 star accommodations 2021 March 427 646
2022 March 1,121 1,944
2023 March 1,347 2,461
2024 March 1,461 2,712
2025 March** 1,473 2,745
2026 March* 1,461 2,641
5 star accommodations 2021 March 24 32
2022 March 91 142
2023 March 142 236
2024 March 141 264
2025 March** 150 275
2026 March* 154 281
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 and earlier are final, the figures for 2025 are revised provisional and the figures for 2026 are provisional.

Changes as of 20 May 2026:
The provisional figures for March and the first quarter of 2026 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

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.