Persons participating in tourism for personal purposes - number of tourists

In 2023, Netherlands's persons participating in tourism for personal purposes increased by 3.9% compared to 2022, reaching 8,605,477.

Netherlands accounts for 4.6% of the EU-27 total of 185,220,958.

Netherlands ranks 6th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 9.9% (from 7,831,409 in 2018).

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