In 2019, overnight stays increased by 11.7%. More growth was expected in 2020 but that did not happen. COVID-19 brought an abrupt halt to overtourism in Amsterdam. The global pandemic…
Halfway 2019 we wrote the following: 'In 2020 Amsterdam will be busier than ever before'. We wrote that sentence before COVID-19 stopped tourists from coming to the Dutch capital. While…
To predict crowds, Avoid-Crowds.com gathers lots of tourist data from around the world. Public holidays and school vacations are key to predicting crowds and are used in all our prediction…
Dutch mainstream media outlet Telegraaf.nl reports that the city of Amsterdam plans to introduce stricter rules for tour groups. According to the newspaper, this measure is taken to fight the negative…
Earlier this year the city of Amsterdam introduced a special tax on cruise passengers arriving at the Passenger Terminal Amsterdam. Since January 1, the city charges the cruise lines 8…
The Amsterdam city council introduced a tax on cruise ship passengers in early 2019. Several cruise lines opted for alternative ports to avoid paying the Amsterdam cruise tax. One of those…
On the 5thof May the Netherlands celebrates Independence Day. Meanwhile, the Passengers Terminal in Amsterdam and the cruise terminal in Ijmuiden are having a busy day of their own. The…
Dutch public broadcaster NOS.nlreports that the number of Airbnb stays has dropped for the first time in Amsterdam. The number of overnight stays dropped with 5 percent to 1.98 million. The…
Avoid Crowds predicted a busy Easter weekend all across the European continent. Most of our predictions turned out to be true. We predicted that most Western European cities like Amsterdam,…