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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Kate Connolly in Berlin

Copenhagen offers tourist rewards as other EU nations clamp down

People on a boat in Copenhagen.
The Copenhagen tourism board says it wants visitors to make more conscious decisions during their stay. Photograph: Jeppe Gustafsson/Rex/Shutterstock

In Barcelona visitors have been sprayed with water pistols in an expression of local people’s anger about over-tourism. By contrast in Copenhagen, tourists are to be given financial and other incentives to come – as long as they act responsibly.

The Danish capital appears to be bucking the trend of other travel hotspots struggling under the burden of too many tourists, by attempting to lure only the well-behaved, socially and environmentally conscious traveller.

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