This reports the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) Friday. This is the second year in a row that increase tourist spending.
The importance of the tourism sector is also increasing. Since 2010, the share of the sector in the economy rose from 3 percent to 3.8 percent.
Foreign tourists gave in 2015 nearly 20 billion euros, more than 13 percent compared to 2014. There were eight percent more tourists to the Netherlands.
Dutch companies
Furthermore, more foreign tourists also frequently booked a hotel or airline tickets to Dutch companies. A large proportion of these tourists did not travel effectively to the Netherlands, but Dutch companies
The tourism expenditure by Dutch tourists in their own country increased by 2.6 percent from a year earlier .
in 2015, 529,000 people were working in the tourism industry, this is an increase of 3 percent. These people had together 377,000 full-time jobs. That is 3.8 percent of the total number of full-time jobs in 2015.
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