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You cannot reduce tourism unless you literally stop the free movement of people, close the borders and prosecute airliners/cruise liners and train operators.

Amsterdam has been bitching about visitors for decades but unfortunately for them they are the national capital so they cannot stop Dutch citizens from vomitting on their precious canals.

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Reducing tourist numbers was never my point, and you are right that you cannot.

The point is not letting tourism turn every home into a short-term rental and push residents out: in the historic centre tourist beds have passed 50,000 while residents fell below 49,000. That is a housing and land-use problem a city is fully allowed to regulate, and it has nothing to do with borders or free movement.

Keep homes as homes, and people can visit all they want.

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