Hans Doets, Director of The Hague Marketing Bureau

Qingdao Fragrant Hills Tourism Summit 2018 Exclusive Interview: Hague, the Second United Nation City

Tourism development is very important for the growth of the local economy. In general tourism provides a substantial part of the employability, for example in Hague 10 %. The more tourists come the more the turnover of hotels, museums, attractions, restaurants, taxi’s and public transport will increase.

Release time : 2018-09-28 14:47:25

source : World Tourism Cities Magazine

Tourism generates 10% of employment in The Hague

Tourism development is very important for the growth of the local economy. In general tourism provides a substantial part of the employability, for example in Hague 10 %. The more tourists come the more the turnover of hotels, museums, attractions, restaurants, taxi’s and public transport will increase. Also new leisure and cultural initiatives will be developed. In total the local economy will grow and the quality level of leisure and cultural offer, also for inhabitants, will improve. The local leisure industry is in terms of employability intensive especially. It provides especially jobs for the middle and low educated groups. On the labour market there is always a shortage for this kind of jobs. Important is that people have more possibilities for leisure activities, they have more free time and their financial position has improved. The local economic growth is expected to be structural.

Tourism promotes cultural communications between different regions nationalism

In my younger years, I am 65 now, a tourist or a foreigner in general was an interesting phenomenon. We were curious and eager to get in contact. We dreamed of the faraway countries the foreigner came from. So you can say that the conditions were good for cultural communication between two regions. Nowadays we are living in an area of upcoming nationalism. Something or someone from abroad is not any longer without doubt positive. Traveling and flying influence the climate in a negative way, big numbers of tourists cause pollution, disturb the living environment, making too much noise and foreigners steal the jobs of locals is more and more communis opinio. But of course tourism can promote cultural communications between two different regions nationalism in spite. On company level employees of companies with a different geographical background get to know each other. You never know the consequences, maybe