Protest against overtourism in Amsterdam: “It's becoming unlivable”
- 12/25/2024
- 101 Day

Amsterdam has become the latest European
city to organize protests against overtourism, following a demonstration against
its “unlivable” conditions.
This year, Amsterdam introduced restrictions on how
tourists enter and stay in the city, aiming to limit overnight stays to just 20
million tourists a year, The Independent reports.
But the canal city's tulip gardens and famous Red
Light District show no sign of slowing down. Amsterdam received around 22
million stays in 2023, 2 million more than the proposed limit.
Dingeman Coumou, the organizer of the “Enough is
Enough” campaign, pointed out that the tourism that “floods the city” is now
becoming destructive for the life of locals in Amsterdam: “It makes it so that
our children can no longer live in the city because of high real estate prices,
it creates a monoculture, but above all the center of Amsterdam is becoming
uninhabitable because of the crowds.”
