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Senay Boztas in Amsterdam

Amsterdam welcomes decline of nuisance tourism after ‘stay away’ drive

An English-language drugs information sign in the red light district of Amsterdam
An English-language drugs information sign in the red light district of Amsterdam. Photograph: Judith Jockel/The Guardian

“Brits on tour!” laughed Devon Bennett, finishing her English breakfast at the all-day brunch restaurant Greenwoods. The 23-year-old from Brighton was in Amsterdam with 20 old school friends, attracted by the city’s reputation for freedom, fun and frolics. “If weed wasn’t legal,” said her friend Chloé Bishop, “people wouldn’t come here just to get high.”

But there is some evidence that high times are ending for partying Britons, whose stag and hen nights have become a byword for tourist nuisance in Amsterdam’s red light district.

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