Persons participating in tourism for personal purposes - number of tourists

In 2021, Netherlands's persons participating in tourism for personal purposes increased by 32.9% compared to 2020, reaching 8,608,971.

Netherlands accounts for 5.6% of the EU-27 total of 152,946,667.

Netherlands ranks 5th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 10.3% (from 7,804,466 in 2016).

Source: Eurostat dataset tin00185, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.