Hotels; guests, country of residence, star rating

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Star rating Periods Guests (x 1,000) Overnight stays (x 1,000)
Total 2020 July 2,139 4,040
2021 July 2,161 4,021
2022 July 3,110 6,150
2023 July 3,290 6,546
2024 July 3,172 6,366
2025 July* 3,189 6,316
Accommodations without stars 2020 July 171 322
2021 July 164 324
2022 July 318 684
2023 July 256 545
2024 July 265 576
2025 July* 268 578
1 star accommodations 2020 July 26 51
2021 July 29 53
2022 July 42 67
2023 July 32 68
2024 July 23 50
2025 July* 25 51
2 star accommodations 2020 July 96 201
2021 July 85 179
2022 July 139 279
2023 July 158 333
2024 July 131 255
2025 July* 129 249
3 star accommodations 2020 July 623 1,240
2021 July 636 1,218
2022 July 895 1,816
2023 July 809 1,646
2024 July 900 1,816
2025 July* 895 1,756
4 star accommodations 2020 July 1,151 2,099
2021 July 1,165 2,107
2022 July 1,582 3,062
2023 July 1,745 3,453
2024 July 1,684 3,336
2025 July* 1,674 3,284
5 star accommodations 2020 July 71 129
2021 July 83 138
2022 July 133 241
2023 July 290 501
2024 July 169 331
2025 July* 197 398
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 2025 are provisional and all other figures are final.

Changes as of 7 October 2025:
The final figures for 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.

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.