Mail on Sunday's Gareth Huw Davies sleeps on a transatlantic liner-turned-hotel in the Netherlands, and sees one of the world’s finest market halls, The Markthal (above).

Tourism in Rotterdam is outpacing that in the rest of the country with tourist numbers 18% higher in the first five months of the year, according to broadcaster RTL. In Amsterdam, the numbers were ...

How Rotterdam’s funky, ... As well as boosting tourism, the new landscape will capture more CO2, reduce heat stress, promote biodiversity and absorb an estimated 4,400m³ of floodwater.