Articles tagged “amsterdam”

Hotels

New CityHub Brand Attempts to Fill Void Between Hostels and Hotels

CityHub is taking the best of capsule hotels and combining this with learnings that smart hostel companies like Generator have gleaned over the past two years.

Greg Oates, Skift | 8 years ago

Ground Transport

Dutch City Reimagines the European Central Train Station

The wildy inventive design at Arnhem Central helps position the city as more than just a mere transfer point for people enroute to Amsterdam.

Greg Oates, Skift | 8 years ago

Tourism

Airbnb Works With Amsterdam to Collect Taxes, Clarify Rules

The new relationship shifts some of the responsibility of informing and educating hosts to Airbnb, which can use its platform to ensure they comply. This is a model that will likely be copied in other markets looking to legitimize the short-term rental economy.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 9 years ago

Tourism

Interview: How Netherlands Tourism Is Luring Visitors Out of Amsterdam

The Netherlands' challenge of getting tourists out of the capital and into the countryside is one that several European destinations can understand. Identifying different market's primary interests in the first step in wooing them away from the big city.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 10 years ago

Tourism

Amsterdam Legitimizes Airbnb with New Short-Term Rental Rules

Although Amsterdam's new legislation will serve as a role model for other cities struggling to understand the new lodging model, every city is unique and will need to define the sharing economy on its own terms.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 10 years ago

Airlines

British Airway’s Beautiful Experiment: Best Travel Ads This Week

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 11 years ago

Tourism

Dutch city proves it’s serious about clamping down on local pot tourism

Unlike Amsterdam where tourists come from the weed but stay for several days, Maastricht’s drug tourists arrived mostly by car from neighboring countries and only stayed long enough to pick up pot.

Mike Corder, Associated Press | 11 years ago

Online Travel

Amsterdam relaxes short-term apartment rental rules, Airbnb breathes sigh of relief

Airbnb has taken Amsterdam’s approval of short-term holiday rentals as a wholehearted endorsement of its service; however, there are caveats involved that will continue to be violated. We’re not yet expecting the Dutch news to be followed by a wave approval in the U.S.

Skift | 11 years ago

Cruises

Best travel ads this week: Holland argues it’s cooler than Brooklyn

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 11 years ago

Tourism

Dutch cyclists celebrate victory over Rijksmuesum: Bicycle path to remain

Cycling is nearly as important as the Rijksmuseum to Amsterdam’s distinct culture, which would have made it a mistake for regulators to put a dam in the iconic area.

Toby Sterling, Associated Press | 11 years ago