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World's oldest lambic brewery opens interactive experience center

June 10, 2026
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Timmermans Brewery in Itterbeek has opened the Lambicus Experience Center. With this, the Pajottenland gains a new tourist attraction centered on lambic, geuze, and living brewing heritage. The oldest still-active lambic brewery in the world combines a historic site from 1702 with...

KHN Amsterdam is deeply concerned about the accumulation of burdens in the hospitality sector.

Last week, coalition parties D66 and Pro (Groen Links / PvdA) presented their plans for the municipality of Amsterdam. Entrepreneurs in the city will face a new direction from the municipality, in which, among other things, the tourist tax is being increased in stages from...

BUas strengthens knowledge position in heritage and themed entertainment

June 3, 2026
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Breda University of Applied Sciences is receiving an extra boost for practice-oriented research in leisure and tourism. Dr. Ilja Simons and Dr. Wim Strijbosch have each received a postdoctoral fellowship of €125.000 from the SIA Steering Committee. Their research focuses on two themes...

Research: tourism accelerates the disappearance of local shops in city centers

April 17, 2026
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European city centers are seeing their local and artisan shops disappear at a rapid pace. The diversity of shops is declining not only in popular tourist cities, but in all cities surveyed. This is evident from European research by Sweco.

New record year for EU tourism in 2025

2025 was a record year for tourism in the EU, with almost 3,1 billion overnight stays in tourist accommodation establishments across the EU. This represents a 2,2% increase, or 66,4 million more nights than in 2024. In the Netherlands...

Tourism Trend Congress 2026: Space for Imagination

March 4 2026
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On Thursday, April 2nd, the Trend Congress on Tourism will take place at Saxion University of Applied Sciences in Deventer, focusing on how leisure, tourism, and space can contribute to quality of life, happiness, and a future-proof society.

VAT increase on accommodation slows growth, international visitors continue to increase

Residential tourism in the Netherlands is expected to grow slightly by 0,5% in 2026 compared to 2025. This makes growth – with the exception of the coronavirus year 2020 – the lowest since 2012. The expected flattening is partly due to the...

Water tourism gets a place in new EU strategy: a step forward for the sector

November 28 2025
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The European Union will explicitly include water-based tourism in the new EU strategy for sustainable tourism and the maritime industry. This is an important step for the water sports sector. HISWA-RECRON has been advocating for this for some time, as an active member of the European Boating Industry...

National Tourism Summit 2025: Inducing Change and Looking Ahead to 2040

The 8th Tourism Summit, held on Monday, September 22, 2025, at the Spant! theater in Bussum, focused on the theme "Inducing Change." More than 600 guests gathered to reflect and...

Tourist spending increased by almost 6 billion euros in 2024

September 3 2025
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In 2024, Dutch and foreign tourists spent 111,2 billion euros in the Netherlands. That's almost 6 billion euros more than in 2023. Foreign tourists account for more than half of this increase, although they only spent 38,2 billion...

Tourism Trend Congress; towards a sustainable sector with technology and innovation

On Thursday 20 March 2025, Breda University of Applied Sciences will be the host university of the annual Trend Congress Tourism and Leisure 2025. The theme of the congress is Tourism in Transformation: Business as Unusual. Today, the congress organization announces the three international...

German visitors spend by far the most in the Netherlands

16 December 2024
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The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) has looked at the spending pattern of foreigners in the Netherlands. This showed that Germans by far spent the most money in the Netherlands during their holiday or business trip in the third quarter of 2024. This is reported by...

World's oldest lambic brewery opens interactive experience center

KHN Amsterdam is deeply concerned about the accumulation of burdens in the hospitality sector.

BUas strengthens knowledge position in heritage and themed entertainment

Research: tourism accelerates the disappearance of local shops in city centers

New record year for EU tourism in 2025

Tourism Trend Congress 2026: Space for Imagination

VAT increase on accommodation slows growth, international visitors continue to increase

Water tourism gets a place in new EU strategy: a step forward for the sector

National Tourism Summit 2025: Inducing Change and Looking Ahead to 2040

Tourist spending increased by almost 6 billion euros in 2024

Tourism Trend Congress; towards a sustainable sector with technology and innovation

German visitors spend by far the most in the Netherlands

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