‘Would you like to explore with a spliff?’: Amsterdam tries to deter troublesome visitors with quiz

Despite city efforts to deter them, overnight visitors to Amsterdam grew 21% last year. Photograph: Judith Jockel/The Guardian

Over the years, Amsterdam has tried various ways of clamping down on nuisance tourism, from a “stay away” campaign to dissuade British lager louts, a ban on smoking cannabis in public in the centre, and 2am bar closing times.

Now it has opted for a new approach, using typical Dutch bluntness in an online quiz that aims to see off those who want to visit the historic city for anything less than its tulips and Stroopwafels.