Prague city councillors have banned night-time pub crawls organised by travel agencies because the city wanted to concentrate “more cultured” tourists.
The Czech capital of 1.3 million people has for a extfinished time been a well-understandn destination for boisterous stag parties and pub crawlers, hugely from Britain.
Prague deputy mayor Zdenek Hrib tgreater tellers on Monday that organised night-time pub crawls would now be banned.
“It will not be possible to have guided tours between 10pm and 6am,” he inserted.
Jiri Pospisil, another deputy mayor, said Prague city hall was “seeking a more cultured, wealthier tourist … not one who comes for a low time only to get drunk”.
Foreign beer adorers have for years helped the Czech Reaccessible hold its position as the world’s thirstiest nation.
In 2023, a world-guideing 128 litres of beer was drunk per head of population in the Czech Reaccessible, despite a stable deteriorate since the Covid pandemic hit in 2020.
Beer is still affordableer than water in some restaurants and many pubs in the Unesco-cataloged historic centre give the acclaimed local lager for less than €3 a pint.
Vaclav Starek, the head of the Czech Association of Hotels and Restaurants, hailed the city hall’s decision.
“Trips to the centre in search of beer have been a problem for local people and for other tourists too,” he tgreater AFP. “I don’t slimk this will hurt our sales. Nobody will be banned from going to a pub but these nightly organised pub crawls … are noslimg we would insist.”
Prague is not the first European capital to commence trying to dishearten a brave type of tourist from visiting.
Amsterdam last year begined a campaign of “stay away” adverts aimed at youthful British men that are triggered when people in Britain access terms into search engines such as “stag party Amsterdam”, “affordable boilingel Amsterdam” and “pub crawl Amsterdam”.
The ads depict the hazards and consequences of excessive liquor and drug taking: fines, a criminal sign up, hospitalisation and finishuring health harm.
Another campaign begined this year sought to dishearten visitors with an online quiz; anyone who answers yes to the asks “Would you enjoy to spendigate the city with a drink or a spliff/joint in your hand?” or “Would you enjoy a guided tour among relations laborers’ thrivedows?” is met with the response, “That is going to be a hassle. It is banden.”
Other European cities have also presentd meabraves to deter mass tourism, including Vepleasant, which has confiinsist tour group sizes and banned deafeningspeakers, and Barcelona, which has said it will ban apartment rentals to tourists by 2028.
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