PRAGUE (AP)– The Czech funding has actually accepted a restriction on arranged nighttime club creeps, which have actually created torment for citizens and authorities alike.
The prominent trips of vacationer teams relocating from bar to bar in Prague’s historical area have actually been just one of the end results of overtourism really felt throughout Europe.
Attracting greater than 7 million visitors in 2014, Prague ultimately chose the restriction, which will certainly work in November, after attempting to handle teams of brawler and intoxicated site visitors for several years.
It was embraced to resolve troubling sound during the night, waste on the roads, and safety and security and reputational worries, claimed Adam Zabransk ý, a participant of the city’s council that composed the proposition that was accepted today.
Zabransk ý claimed that the goal had not been to avoid individuals from having a beverage in this beer-loving nation, however “we don’t want to support cheap alco-tourism that’s unfortunately still quite common in Prague,” Zabranský told The Associated Press.
The ban will be enforced by the city police force between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. with organizers of the pub crawls violating it facing fines of up to 100,000 koruna ($4,300).
The radical move came after the previous efforts to deal with the issue failed, including the appointment of a night mayor in 2019, a city official whose job was to minimize the impact of nightlife on residents.
“It would be great if the owners of the establishments take their share of responsibility,” Zabranský said.
“As it is, the residents in the busy areas face the negative consequences while the bar owners participating in the pub crawls make profit and don’t care about the problems.”
The move is part of the city’s long-term strategy to promote cultural tourism and in general to attract people to stay longer than just for a weekend and come back again.
“People coming to experience culture behave differently than those who arrive to drink all weekend long,” Zabranský said.
An agency organizing the pub crawls called the ban “a populist move,” while a group of dozens of participants on Thursday apparently enjoyed their experience.
“(The pub crawl) was very nice,” Melissa Haine from Germany claimed. “I think it’s very funny, and you get to know new people.”
The most current step by Prague does not imply that site visitors would certainly encounter barriers to sampling neighborhood beer in a nation that is the globe’s biggest customer of the beverage per head.
“Czechia has exceptional potential in beer tourism, thanks to its long history of brewing, unique breweries and the current trend of experiential and sustainable tourism,” claimed Franti šek Reism üller, the head of the nation’s vacationer authority.
“Our goal is to show that beer travel can be not only about tasting great beer, but also about learning about Czech culture, traditions and history.”
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Stanislav Hodina added to this record.
Karel Janicek, The Associated Press
