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by bastawhiz 1064 days ago
You might be the exception to the rule.

> Mayor Femke Halsema complained last year that cruise tourists were let loose for a couple of hours, ate at international chains and had no time to visit a museum, consuming the city but doing little for it.

They cite 20 million visitors each year, which is a huge number of people. Even if those people each only show up for one day (evenly distributed through the year) and leave, that's 55,000 people each day, which is a huge number.

Those are people who might be putting some money into the local economy, but it sounds like the cost to the government for all of the services provided to support the tourism industry (police, healthcare, etc) isn't making enough of an impact on the local economy to justify.
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bmsleight_ 1064 days ago
>that's 55,000 people each day, which is a huge number. Cruise ship has around 4,000 (for a mega ship). So that 10 ships a day. Even Southampton struggle with 5 at a max.

https://cruisedig.com/ports/amsterdam-holland/arrivals

Suggests much less than 55,000 people each day. More like 3,000

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bastawhiz 1064 days ago
Right, airplanes and other forms of transportation exist. But those 4000 people aren't there for a single 24 hour window (as most of them aren't). The point is that it's a huge number of visitor-days in the most conservative case. More visitors for more days means more burden on the city.

And by your numbers, assuming cruise ships dock for roughly the same amount of time as the median tourist visits the city, that means one 4000-person ship represents about 7% of the tourists in the city. Banning cruise ships is an awfully simple solution to take a meaningful bite out of a problem that local authorities clearly think is important.

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midasuni 1063 days ago
More days per person means less burden. Think of Cairo. If you visit for one day you are going to see the pyramids. 20 tourist-days = 20 visits to the pyramids. You likely do t have dinner out, as you’re off to the next photo op, you likely didn’t have breakfast either. You perhaps brought a packed lunch.

If you visit for 5 days you’re only going to see the pyramids one one day. 20 tourist-days means 4 pyramid visits, 4 Egyptian museum visits, 2 or 3 up the tower and various visitors to different museums and mosques, multiple meals out throughout the week.

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coev 1064 days ago
55K was all tourists, not just cruise tourists.
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