A 1000 Dutch Delights

Special website with tips on the most interesting "delights" in Holland

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. October 14, 2008

MARCH 6, 2008. In 2008, travelers to Holland can expand their Dutch horizons with a visit to the country's best kept secrets. Under the title "A 1000 Dutch Delights," the Netherlands Board of Tourism & Conventions (NBTC) has launched a series of tips on the most unusual locations in Holland, sites not well known to the wider community. These "delights" have been selected throughout the country in the areas of Culture, History, Gastronomy and Lodging.

Holland offers cultural heritage gems such as beautiful historic towns, special regions, outdoor spaces, fortresses and waterlines. Half the country is below sea level and this has given Holland exceptional, but less well-known landscapes: wetlands, polders and moorlands unique in Europe. Holland boasts a growing list of restaurants with Michelin stars to their names and these and others can be found for instance inside factories, towers and small castles. Among Holland's "1000 Dutch Delights" are hotels offering artistic, historical or fun style rooms and B&B's housed in country homes, monasteries and farms. Sleeping in a castle, boat, lighthouse or haystack, these unexpected delights are only a short distance away from Amsterdam.

SPECIAL WEBSITE www.1000dutchdelights.com

The website contains information on a number of Dutch Delights in Holland, gems which are unfamiliar to most foreign visitors. Travelers can get tips on unusual accommodations, restaurants, as well as original sites of interest and activities that can be done during their trip. All gems have been selected based on exclusivity, quality and originality. The website is extremely easy to navigate, shows beautiful images, provides suggested itineraries throughout six of Holland's provinces, as well as recommendations on what "to do," where "to eat," where "to sleep," and how "to get there" information.

A FEW TIPS...

• Spending a night in the Harlingen lighthouse

• Cycling through the caves of Maastricht

• Going on a canoe safari through "Noord-Holland"

• Dining at Restaurant Auberge de Campveerse Toren in Zeeland, a town inn since 1400.

For more information, please contact:

Brigitta Kroon-Fiorita

Netherlands Board of Tourism & Conventions (NBTC)

Phone: (914) 720-1281

E-mail: [email protected]

www.holland.com