Published June 27, 2021 at 2.34 pm
Culture. Every year, the Netherlands attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists with its liberal views on things like drugs, homosexuality, suicide, pedophilia, prostitution and public urination. But after tourism was suspended during the pandemic, Amsterdam does not want the liberal visitors back – and the authorities now officially advise them not to return.
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“We do not want to go back to what it was like before the pandemic”, reads a press release from the city council.
“Visitors who do not show respect for our residents and our cultural heritage are The message to these is: do not come to Amsterdam “.
One of the city's residents, Nicola Theobald, tells CNN how the absence of tourists during the pandemic allowed residents to visit areas of the city that they needed to avoid for many years.
– We got rid of people crowded around the canals and vomited from drugs and alcohol consumption. We got our city back and liked it that way.
Since the Netherlands established its self-image as a social liberal paradise in the late 1970s, a lot has happened in liberal core issues and the country has not infrequently caused controversy abroad.
Within the EU, many eyebrows were raised when the Netherlands approved its first pedophile party in 2006, and in 2019 foreign media reported in horror how the country was trying new integration policy solutions by allowing a 17-year-old girl who had been gang-raped to receive state euthanasia.
For the residents of Amsterdam has long had the problem that the kind of people who are attracted to things like this, that is, liberals, are simply stressful to have as tourists.
“Honestly, Amsterdam has long had problems with tourists making noise, littering and urinating in public year after year despite the growing dissatisfaction of residents,” CNN, a liberal American news channel, admitted somewhat unexpectedly in an article on Sunday.
And now it seems to be time for order. The press release from the city's municipal council announces a number of measures that can make the city appear like a big city in any normal country.
Tourists who sleep in their cars will be greeted by a municipal security force that either issues fines. on site or installs a wheel lock on the car if there is no effective agreement on fine collection with the tourist's home country. Alcohol sales from shops will be banned and in the channels, speed and sound controls will be carried out by the authorities, while the police will have extra resources to seize things such as nitrous oxide, alcohol and sound equipment that are used in public.
In addition, the City Council allocates 100,000 euros to market the city as a “cultural monument” to foreign tourists, to attract a more conservative customer group to the hospitality industry in the future.