Amsterdam is actively trying to discourage young male tourists from visiting their city, even launching targeted digital advertising campaigns explicitly telling budget travelers and bachelor parties to stay away.

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Amsterdam is actively trying to discourage young male tourists from visiting their city, even launching targeted digital advertising campaigns explicitly telling budget travelers and bachelor parties to stay away. The local government has grown incredibly exhausted by the endless waves of intoxicated foreigners vomiting into their historic canals, destroying public property, and treating their beautiful red-light district like an interactive amusement park of poor life choices. If you search online for cheap flights to the Dutch capital, you might literally receive official government warnings explaining that you are not welcome if your only goal is to smoke cheap weed and behave terribly. It is a stunningly direct marketing approach that proves even famously tolerant European cities eventually reach their breaking point with obnoxious budget tourism