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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Renate van der Zee

Amsterdam is sick of ‘party tourists’. It should take drastic measures to stop them

A very busy, wide street with the pavement full of people.
Tourists stroll along the popular Damrak street in Amsterdam. Photograph: Erik Lattwein/Alamy

An online quiz is the latest strategy with which Amsterdam hopes to deter nuisance tourists. The quiz is called Amsterdam Rules, and is meant to appear in search results about the city. It asks for the reasons why you desire to visit the Dutch capital. If you respond: for a stag party, a pub crawl or to smoke marijuana in public, you’ll be told that you will be disappointed, because it’s no longer allowed.

The quiz is just one in a long series of experiments with which Amsterdam has tried to reduce the disruption caused by the hordes of tourists who come to the city to party wildly.

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