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Mass tourism bothers residents of the Dutch city, who have already launched a lawsuit against the City Council.
It is a pioneering step – and it is an uncommon scenario: inhabitants of a city are putting in court the city council of the city where they live.
Happens in Amsterdam, In the Netherlands: Local inhabitants launched a lawsuit against the City Council.
Reason? Tourism. Or rather the Mass Tourism. The places think there are extra visitors and consider that the municipality is not doing everything it could to wage this trend.
The recalls that the City Hall itself announced measures to combat the impact of mass tourism. Among them, a law imposed four years ago: limit the number of tourists to 20 million per year – but last year there were 22.9 million and probably this year will be more.
And even there campaigns To ward off your tourism model from the farewells of single, Pub Crawls, drug use and sexual work (which make Amsterdam famous).
A tourist rate It became more expensive (12.5%, the highest in Europe); The number of river and sea cruises must go to half; The construction of new hotels is conditioned.
But, according to the places, Everything is practically the same. They complain of ineffective management of local tourism by the House-which does not fulfill their own rules, they claim.
That is why, on Monday, a group of inhabitants of Amsterdam filed a lawsuit against the municipality.
Citizens’ Initiative is called “Amsterdam has a choice,” joined 50,000 euros – All money from local inhabitants – and is supported by 12 resident organizations.
“Three years ago the number of overnights exceeds 20 million agreed, without the municipality taking effective measures,” reacts Jasper Van Dijk, one of the Dutch involved in this initiative.
The inhabitants want the tourist rate is even higher“Amsterdam could use significant additional revenues from increasing the tourist fee to buy properties to help solve the problem of housing or free the city of street garbage created in part by mass tourism,” explains Van Dijk.
“If the municipality implement this substantial increase in the tourist rate, it will generate more revenues than the combined costs of all previous plans,” he says.
