Amsterdam
Amsterdam has lengthy been making an attempt to scrub up a popularity for rowdy stag events, medication and intercourse that has been partly blamed on an inflow of round 20 million guests a 12 months.
In 2023 it launched a web-based marketing campaign aimed toward discouraging younger British males from travelling to Amsterdam to get excessive or very drunk, telling them in sometimes blunt Dutch vogue to “keep away” or danger arrest.
Amsterdam additionally introduced final week a ban on new motels and that it might halve the variety of river cruise ships within the metropolis inside 5 years.
It additionally determined final 12 months to ban smoking hashish on the streets of the red-light district.
Hallstatt and Salzburg in Austria
The tiny village of Hallstatt, a hamlet simply 750 folks sturdy not removed from Salzburg and bearing a placing resemblance to the fictional kingdom of Arendelle from Disney’s Frozen – final 12 months prompted furore when its residents erected a fence at its well-known vista to discourage selfie-seekers. After a social media backlash, the village – which can be a UNESCO heritage website – eliminated the fence, however indicators remind guests to benefit from the website quietly.
Residents had been additionally protesting in favour of tourism curbs within the village, which will get as many as 10,000 guests a day in excessive season. They wish to restrict the numbers and ban tour buses within the city after 5:00 p.m.
Not removed from Hallstatt, the town made well-known by classical music, Hollywood classics and Christmas songs, Salzburg, has additionally complained about huge tourism and the hazard of being “overrun by mass vacationers and day trippers”.
Town’s tourism boss Christine Schönhuber mentioned: “We solely need those that keep in a single day”. The western Austrian metropolis is but to take any concrete measures, but it surely has floated concepts similar to closing some streets to automobiles and placing restrictions on memento retailers. Town can be contemplating closing the bus terminal on the metropolis’s Mirabellplatz to day tripping firms – permitting solely these transporting in a single day company.
Iseltwald, Switzerland
The quaint Swiss village of Iseltwald has been compelled to restrict the variety of vacationers after followers of a South Korean Netflix hit present flocked to the area in droves sparking a backlash from locals.
Iseltwald is sometimes called the pearl of Lake Brienz, and rightfully so. The fishing village is situated on the left financial institution of the river and is without doubt one of the smallest communities within the canton of Bern – and locals want to hold it that manner.
An image taken on June 2, 2023 reveals the village of Iseltwald on the shore of Lake Brienz, within the Swiss Alps. Photograph by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP
Dubrovnik
Croatia’s medieval walled metropolis of Dubrovnik is certainly one of Europe’s most overcrowded cities, with the circulation of vacationers typically making it unattainable to stroll contained in the historic Outdated City.
The jewel of the Adriatic has seen an enormous surge in customer numbers since scenes from the sequence “Recreation of Thrones” had been filmed on its ramparts in 2011.
In 2023, the city of 41,000 folks obtained 1.2 million vacationers, under 2019’s report of 1.4 million.
In 2019 native authorities restricted the variety of cruise ship arrivals to 2 per day, with not more than 4,000 passengers every at a time.
In addition they launched an app that makes use of machine studying and climate forecasts to foretell when the Outdated City, a UNESCO world heritage website, will probably be busiest.