Amsterdam residents take council to court over tourist numbers - DutchNews.nl

A group of Amsterdam city centre residents are taking legal action. They believe that the city council is not adhering to the agreed limit of twenty million tourist overnight stays per year.

Amsterdam continues to work on solutions to reduce the growth of mass tourism. Alderman Sofyan Mbarki (economic affairs) announced this on Monday in response to the summons the municipality received from the citizens' initiative 'Amsterdam has a Choice'. This initiative states that the city is not doing enough against tourism and is not adhering to its own 2021 regulation.

Annual maximum of twenty million tourist overnight stays, the number that the city council agreed upon in 2021. But with record years of the number of visitors coming to the city behind us, that limit has long since been exceeded. To put a stop to that, a group of city center residents are going to court. An empty Dam, a quiet Red Light District and a disappeared outflow of tourists from Central Station. During the corona period, Amsterdam was e…

Amsterdam residents take council to court over tourist numbers - DutchNews.nl

Amsterdam residents take council to court over tourist numbers