International hotel guests in Amsterdam 2021, by continent

There were roughly 1.77 million international hotel guests in Amsterdam, the capital city of the Netherlands, throughout 2021. The majority of international tourists comprised of Europeans, with some 1.44 million travelers from the continent visiting the city during that year. Travelers from Oceania constituted the smallest share of international visitors in Amsterdam, with the city reporting only nine thousand individuals from the region in 2021.

Hotels in the Netherlands

The Netherlands is major tourist destination for travelers worldwide. Visitors spent approximately 4.38 million hotel nights in the Netherlands in 2021. European tourists, excluding those from the Netherlands, made up the largest share of hotel night consumers in the country, having spent 3.73 million hotel nights in 2021. The Dutch tourism industry was challenged by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic which began in 2020, as is evident from the drop in inbound tourists in the Netherlands from 20.1 million in 2019 to 7.3 million in 2020.

City spotlight: Rotterdam

Rotterdam, a city located in the province of Zuid-Holland, attracted roughly 206 thousand hotel guests from abroad during 2020. Other than domestic travelers, German tourists constituted the largest share of hotel guests in Rotterdam in 2020, as some 52 thousand Germans visited the port city in that year.