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The queue to buy cookies from Van Stapele Koekmakerij, a bakery in the Amsterdam city center, usually stretches along both sides of a narrow street these days, making it nearly impossible for cyclists to pass. Many of those in line on Thursday told NL Times they are tourists who arrived from all over the world, with one thing in common: They saw the cookies on TikTok.
The red light district, deserted during the first lockdown Photo: Alex Nicholls-Lee Amsterdam in 2025 will have a city centre where a ‘different’ kind of visitor and ‘Amsterdammers want to come’, according to new city plans. The coronavirus crisis laid bare how certain areas had become almost totally dependent on low-budget tourism, linked with noise, nuisance and locals chased or priced out. Now, following calls from tourism experts, businesses and local residents to reset the city’s reputation for drugs, sex and lost weekends, the council has proposed 88 far-reaching measures to e...