In 2023, Dutch people aged 15 and older went on holiday 2,5 times on average, which amounts to a total of 37,6 million holidays. Yet a significant part of the population stayed at home: as much as 19 percent.
This is a decrease compared to 2020, the first year of the corona crisis, when 32 percent of Dutch people stayed at home. From 2021 onwards, the number of people staying at home started to decline again. Statistics Netherlands, which published these figures based on the CBS Holiday Survey, shows that a third of people who did not go on holiday chose to do so because they preferred to stay at home.
Who stays at home?
Older people in particular appear to stay at home more often than young people. Of those over 75, 44 percent did not go on holiday, while this percentage among 15 to 25 year olds was only 12 percent. Income also plays an important role: 38 percent of the lowest income group stayed at home, compared to only 8 percent of the highest income group. In addition, people from single-person households or single-parent families were more likely to not go on holiday than people from other types of households.
Reasons to stay home
Of those over 15 who did not go on holiday in 2023, more than 33 percent indicated that they would prefer to stay at home. Other reasons given included health problems, financial constraints, lack of time due to work, study or family commitments. Safety reasons were mentioned least often.
Health and staying at home
For 43 percent of people over 65, health was the main reason for staying at home. Among 45 to 65 year olds, the preference to stay at home was the most frequently mentioned reason. For people up to the age of 45, work pressure, study and financial constraints were the main reasons for not going on holiday, with both reasons cited by 37 percent of stay-at-home travelers in this age group.
Financial limitations
Lack of money mainly affects people under the age of 45 and people in the lowest income group. Of this group of people who stayed at home, 44 percent indicated that they did not go on holiday for this reason. In the highest and middle income groups this percentage is considerably lower, around 20 percent.
Source: CBS
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Real? Those are the reasons why you don't go on holiday?
This is really something that surprises me. You don't go because you don't have enough money. Could it be that people buy less luxurious items for the same reason? Or maybe they don't have a car because they are too old or don't have the money for it anymore?
When I saw the headline of that article, I thought there were going to be reasons we didn't expect.
However, this is along the lines of: water is wet, fire is hot, ice is cold…
I think so again. You can only spend your euro once. It's a choice: a new luxury item or a holiday? The down payment on a new car or a holiday? Don't feel like saving for a holiday anymore? Vacation is not a right. Vacation is also not an obligation. Previously, I was not someone who liked to go to France, Germany or elsewhere for some fun. It wasn't until I met my wife that I thought it would be fun to travel to Thailand every year. Because of her. Now I'm definitely there. Because of her.