It is shown that tourism mobility constitutes a significant and relevant travel category. However, it was found that up till now strategic transport planning at the EU and national levels hardly includes tourism mobility in standard transport policy development processes. An important finding is that the gaps in knowledge of tourism mobility are huge and are an formidable obstacle for inclusion of this mobility segment explicitly in transport policy making. In brief a number of strategies and related actions for visitor flow management practices are presented. It consists of a thematic structure and some 21 research themes.
Tourism affects both regional development and the transports sector.
Increasing trends are observed throughout Europe including the Netherlands and its cities among which Amsterdam is a major tourist attraction. This paper focuses on the strengthening of the links between long haul and local transport networks in the case of the City of Amsterdam. The paper is divided in three parts. The first part refers to social and recreational travel in the Netherlands. The second part of the paper refers to the long-haul transport to Amsterdam.