Economic worries holding back development domestic tourism
Domestic tourism continued to struggle during 2013 as Dutch people remained pessimistic about their personal financial short term outlook. This negative attitude meant that consumers were not very eager to book domestic trips as many preferred to book shorter, less expensive trips and some decided to not to book a holiday at all. Consumers were looking to cut the cost of their total annual travel budget and in many cases this meant that they denied themselves the luxury of taking several short domestic trips throughout the year, limiting themselves to one longer summer holiday instead.