Residents of Amsterdam Are Suing the City in an Effort to Reduce Mass Tourism

Residents of Amsterdam are suing nan metropolis successful an effort to fight overcrowding from wide tourism.

The statement Amsterdam Has a Choice revenge nan ineligible title against nan metropolis connected Sept. 22 aft raising astir $60,000 from supporters, per The Independent and EuroNews.com. The statement intends to unit nan metropolis to limit overnight stays successful Amsterdam to 20 cardinal a year, per nan org’s official website.

“Amsterdammers are fed up,” sounds a translated connection connected nan website. “Everywhere you spot nan effect of wide tourism connected nan city: section shops are giving measurement to souvenir shops and Nutella stores. Houses and nationalist buildings are being converted into hotels, and you tin hardly locomotion connected nan sidewalks because of nan agelong lines astatine TikTok hotspots. The metropolis is gradually losing its unsocial Amsterdam atmosphere.”

The statement states that 30,000 residents of Amsterdam person already signed a petition successful favour of enacting actual plans and policies to limit wide tourism. They besides authorities that nan city’s authorities technically already has a argumentation for limiting nan number of yearly tourists, but claims that nary applicable changes person been implemented.

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PEOPLE reached retired to Amsterdam Has a Choice and nan Municipality of Amsterdam for remark connected Thursday, Oct. 2, but did not person an contiguous response.

Amsterdam follows a increasing number of cities worldwide that are protesting overcrowding, specifically owed to tourism.

Residents of Hallstatt, a mini Austrian colony rumored to beryllium nan inspiration for Arendelle successful Disney’s Frozen movies, began protesting wide tourism successful 2020. The scenic village, which has a organization of astir 780 people, was getting up to 10,000 visitors a day, according to a study from The Guardian.

Residents of Mexico City person besides joined nan anti-mass-tourism activity successful caller months. In July, demonstrators took to nan streets to protestation some excessive tourism and gentrification successful their communities, which they opportunity person driven up rent and costs of surviving prices to untenable degrees for existent locals, per nan BBC.

It has been estimated that 1 successful 5 homes successful nan city’s Condesa territory is now a short-term rental aliases tourer accommodation, according to nan outlet.

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Other celebrated tourer destinations to protestation wide tourism see Venice, Italy; Barcelona, Spain; and nan Canary Islands, per Travel and Tour World.