Dutch hospitality bankruptcies: 25.1 per 100,000 in October
No sector recorded proportionally more bankruptcies in October than hospitality, Statistics Netherlands reports. Across the country 322 companies went bankrupt, 27 per cent more than a year earlier.
Dutch hospitality bankruptcies were proportionally higher in October than in any other sector: 25.1 out of every 100,000 hospitality businesses went bankrupt, against 23.3 a year earlier. Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reported the figures on 12 November.
Across the Netherlands, 322 companies were declared bankrupt in October, adjusted for the number of court session days. That is 69 more than in October 2025, an increase of 27 per cent, and one more than in September. For all companies combined, CBS arrived at 8.5 bankruptcies per 100,000 businesses, against 6.8 a year earlier.
Dutch hospitality bankruptcies ahead of manufacturing
In October, a hospitality business was more than three times as likely to go bankrupt as the average company.
Manufacturing comes directly behind hospitality, with 24.8 bankruptcies per 100,000 businesses. That is where the rate rose most sharply: a year earlier it stood at 19.5. Transport and storage came in at 21.2, trade at 14.2 and construction at 12.5. According to CBS, these sector figures are not adjusted for session days; on that basis the average across all sectors is 8.1. In October, a hospitality business was therefore more than three times as likely to go bankrupt as the average company.
The level itself has barely moved. In September CBS recorded 25.2 bankruptcies per 100,000 hospitality businesses, against 46.7 a year earlier; in August the figure was 21.0, as AMUSE reported on the fall in hospitality bankruptcies after the peak year. The year-on-year comparison has now turned because October 2025, at 23.3, was a relatively quiet month.
In Amsterdam, too, rulings keep coming. According to Faillissementsdossier.nl, four Amsterdam hospitality companies were declared bankrupt on 4 and 11 November. The site counts 234 hospitality bankruptcies nationwide this year up to 13 November, against 229 in the same period of 2025. That is a different count from the one used by CBS.
Covid tax debt and higher VAT on hotel stays
CBS does not give causes for individual companies. Two known costs do continue, however. Business owners together still owe 1.9 billion euros in deferred Covid-era taxes, spread over about 73,000 companies, Accountant.nl reported on 3 November, based on figures from the Dutch tax authority. Around 25,000 of them are behind on payments. For most business owners the payment arrangement ends on 1 October 2027. No breakdown for hospitality is available.
On top of that, VAT on hotel accommodation rose to 21 per cent on 1 January 2026. Hospitality association KHN called the increase unavoidable in late 2025, after a motion in parliament to reverse it failed to win a majority. As early as November 2025, one in five hospitality businesses said it was struggling with problematic debts, against 14 per cent a year earlier, according to CBS research at the time.
CBS will publish the November figures in December. By then, ten months will remain until the Covid payment arrangement ends.
