I need documentation of fact figures on numbers of tourist from
different countries that visited Netherlands.

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Request for Question Clarification by politicalguru-ga on 06 Mar 2003 07:48 PST

Do you need information on tourist by coutries, or would you be
satisfied with the statistics of foreign (non-Dutch) tourism in the
netherlands in general (yearly visitors; top countries, etc.)?

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Clarification of Question by gemini65-ga on 06 Mar 2003 10:39 PST

yes I need statistics toursits from each countries to Netherlands.

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Clarification of Question by gemini65-ga on 06 Mar 2003 10:46 PST

yes either that

<The Netherlands attracts approximately 10 million tourists each year.
The vast majority come from Germany, Belgium, the U.S. and the U.K. 
The Netherlands official statistics site just gives figures for
Germany which accounts for the largest visitor numbers from all
foreign countries. One third of all foreign tourists are German. One
source quotes that there are as many asian visitors as there Germans.

The figures are as follows:
Germany 3.3 million
US 900,000
UK 872,000 
Belgium 3 million (day trip) (657,000 short break)
Asia 3.3 million
The balance is made up mainly from visitors from the rest of Europe.>

<Additional links:>

<Netherlands statistics>
<http://www.cbs.nl/en/publications/press-releases/2001/pb01e241.pdf>

<Tradeport – figures for U.S. tourists visiting the Netherlands.>
<http://www.tradeport.org/ts/countries/netherlands/isa/isar0014.html>

<http://www.channels.nl/knowledge/18271.html>

<UK visitor numbers 1998>
<http://www.statistics.gov.uk/STATBASE/xsdataset.asp?More=Y>

<Netherlands country profile>
<http://sites.usatrade.gov/sce/documents/market_briefs/travel/cp/ww-netherlands.html>

<About the Netherlands>
<http://www.oranda.or.jp/index/english/netherlands/ge_country.html>

<Belgian visitors>
<http://www.bbt.be/Library/interviews/interview1102.htm>


<Search strategy:> 

<netherlands   statistics tourism nl>
<://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=netherlands+++statistics+tourism&as_q=nl>

<uk statistics tourism>
<://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=uk+statistics+tourism>

<"visited the netherlands" belgian million>
<://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22visited+the+netherlands%22+belgian+million+tourism>


<Hope this helps.>

Here's some simple figures for Amsterdam:

Amsterdam as a tourist center is frequented by all kinds of
nationalities. The majority are from Great Britain (692 thousand
bed-nights yearly), the U.S.A. (493 thousand), Germany (416 thousand),
Italy (301 thousand), and France (260 thousand).
http://www.aidsfonds.nl/eucon/amsterdm.htm

Hello, gemini65,

I doubt you are going to get a complete answer to your question: 
visitors who go to the Netherlands from other Schengen countries may
not be required to go through passport control, and there may be no
count of them.  This will especially apply to visitors who travel by
land, by car or train for instance, from or through Germany or France
or Belgium and so on.

Counts of such visitors can only be estimates...

Good luck, the estimates are probably out there, somewhere!

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