Amsterdam is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Europe, receiving more than 4.63 million international visitors annually, this is excluding the 16 million day trippers visiting the city every year. The number of visitors has been growing steadily over the past decade. This can be attributed to an increasing number of European visitors. Two thirds of the hotels are located in the city's centre. Hotels with 4 or 5 stars contribute 42% of the total beds available and 41% of the overnight stays in Amsterdam. The room occupation rate was 78% in 2006, up from 70% in 2005. The majority of tourists (74%) originate from Europe. The largest group of non-European visitors come from the United States, accounting for 14% of the total. Certain years have a theme in Amsterdam to attract extra tourists. For example, the year 2006 was designated "Rembrandt 400", to celebrate the 400th birthday of Rembrandt van Rijn. Some hotels offer special arrangements or activities during these years. The average number of guests per year staying at the four campsites around the city range from 12,000 to 65,000.
Museum on Holland on Google Search Map
Museums are visible in a Google Search Map. Type your seach in the seach-box in the right corner of the map. The search result will be visible on the Google Map. Searching a museum in a specific town. Type for example: museum Maastricht.............
Living and working in the Netherlands. For general information see the Justice Ministry's Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) website. A variety of leafletscan also be ordered or downloaded from the IND.
The Netherlands is a kingdom. Its full name is the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It consists of the Netherlands itself and six islands in the Caribbean Sea: Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles. The Netherlands is also sometimes called "Holland". The word features in the names of the two western coastal provinces, North and South Holland, which have played a dominant role in the country's history.
Floriade is a World Horticultural Expo staged once every ten years in Holland. From April until October 2012, the sixth edition of Floriade will be organised in Venlo in central-eastern Holland and will be open to the public daily.
A visa is an authorisation or decision in the form of a sticker affixed to a passport or other travel document. It means that when the visa was issued no objection existed to the holder entering the Netherlands to stay temporarily or travel on to a third country. But having a visa does not give a person the automatic right of entry. When visa holders enter the country, they have to show that they still meet the conditions for entry.
The statistics below - unless otherwise mentioned - are provided to us once a year by Statistics Netherlands (CBS). The list was last updated in June 2007 with the most recent figures available at that time. The very latest statistics can be found on the CBS website
