Travel in city Amsterdam

It's the summer of the Paris Olympic Games and Taylor Swift's Eras Tour across European cities, but for locals, this summer is already heating up to be one of protests—across Lake Como, Barcelona, the Canary Isles, Venice and Amsterdam, residents are already fighting what they perceive as overtourism.

Amsterdam is banning the construction of new hotel buildings in its latest move to curb overtourism.

In a bid to tackle overtourism and ensure the city’s livability, Amsterdam officials have announced a bold new policy banning the building of new hotels in the bustling Dutch capital, The Washington Post reported. 

In an effort to battle overtourism, Amsterdam continues to make some big changes. 

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According to the city’s statistics bureau, more than 18 million people visited Amsterdam last year, making it one of the world’s most popular vacation destinations.

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The city of Amsterdam will ban nearly all new hotels and restrict the number of tourists who can stay overnight each year in its latest effort to combat overtourism.

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Amsterdam has banned new hotel developments to combat mass tourism, the municipal government announced Wednesday.

Amsterdam has been searching for any way to rein in the number of tourists that visit the city every year.

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One of the first things you notice about Amsterdam when you visit is that there are canals everywhere — and in many of those canals are houseboats.

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