And I say it as someone with no interest in cruises.
Also, it's fun that Amsterdam pretends it does not like certain type of tourist unless they spend money in museums but it clearly caters to the "sex and drugs go crazy in AMS" tourist.
Much to the point that it's shocking to other tourists who are simply visiting it as one more city.
I'm pretty sure that a city banning private jets would be orders of magnitude less impactful and more media-stuntworty than banning cruise ships.
That’s a totally coherent position to hold, even if it’s difficult to encode into policy.
This posts triggers the hell out of me. Amsterdam has been trying it's hardest for _at least_ 5 years and probably a lot longer to get rid of these types of tourists. With english bachelor party goer's in particular.
I haven't lived there in over a decade, but even then, they were at least talking about programs to deal with the "worst" tourists for a few demographics. And all the while, they were putting in lots of money to make things nicer for the kind of tourists they like. While I was there, it seemed like a popular and economically successful set of policies. I'm guessing they still are.