Netherlands: accommodation & food service industry employees 2020

In 2020, the number of employees in the accommodation and food service industry in the Netherlands decreased by 43,505 employees (-9.89 percent) since 2019. Nevertheless, the last two years in this industry recorded a significant higher number of employees than the preceding years.
The relationship of employer to employee exists when there is an agreement, which may be formal or informal, between an enterprise and a person, normally entered into voluntarily by both parties, whereby the person works for the enterprise in return for remuneration in cash or in kind.

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Total number of employees in the accommodation and food service activities industry in the Netherlands from 2011 to 2020

Characteristic	Number of employees
2020	396,213
2019	439,718
2018	424,718
2017	406,694
2016	389,359
2015	374,357
2014	356,083
2013	347,879
2012	342,289
2011	337,166

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Release date

March 2023

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Netherlands

Survey time period

2011 to 2020

Supplementary notes

The source adds the following information: Number of employees is defined as those persons who work for an employer and who have a contract of employment and receive compensation in the form of wages, salaries, fees, gratuities, piecework pay or remuneration in kind. A worker from an employment agency is considered to be an employee of that temporary employment agency and not of the unit (customer) in which they work.
Data coverage corresponds to code I of NACE Rev 2.

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