Persons participating in tourism for personal purposes - number of tourists

In 2024, Netherlands's persons participating in tourism for personal purposes decreased by 2.2% compared to 2023, reaching 8,419,682.

Netherlands accounts for 4.5% of the EU-27 total of 188,318,376.

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 4.6% (from 8,052,438 in 2019).

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