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Indoor Karting Is The Most Famous Game In Amsterdam

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;" align&equals;"JUSTIFY"><em><b>Amsterdam is quickly developing a reputation as home to the most ludicrous tourist attractions in Europe &colon;<&sol;b><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;" align&equals;"JUSTIFY">Amsterdam’s tourism industry has swelled exponentially over the last couple of decades&comma; with numbers boosted by increasingly affordable travel services from other European countries and Amsterdam’s growing reputation as a top tourist destination&period; There is something of a self-perpetuating prophecy about all this&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;" align&equals;"JUSTIFY">The Iamexpat website has noted that Amsterdam saw more than 5&period;7 million tourists arrive in 2014&comma; an increase of half a million compared to the year before&period; Amsterdam is the 8<sup>th<&sol;sup> most popular tourist destination in the Europe&comma; and this status increases interest in the city&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;" align&equals;"JUSTIFY"><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-1281 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;incrediblemag&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;08&sol;Indoor-Karting-Amsterdam&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Indoor Karting Amsterdam" width&equals;"512" height&equals;"231" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;" align&equals;"JUSTIFY"><em><b>Amsterdam’s Tourist Industry is scrambling to cater for the huge numbers of tourists &colon;<&sol;b><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;" align&equals;"JUSTIFY"><a name&equals;"&lowbar;GoBack"><&sol;a>Amsterdam’s tourism industry provides huge numbers of activities to tourists arriving in the city in a never ending effort to part them from their precious holiday cash&period; These activities are become more and more bizarre each year – while once holiday activities like Indoor Karting Amsterdam&comma; canal tours and museum tickets were the norm&comma; now those services are squeezing in beside strip shows&comma; nude painting workshops&comma; treasure hunting tours&comma; and in one particular odd case&comma; fellatio classes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;" align&equals;"JUSTIFY">Here is a quick cross section of activities that we turned up during a 5 minute google search&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">&NewLine;<li>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"JUSTIFY">Indoor Karting&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"JUSTIFY">Red Light Tour&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"JUSTIFY">Arts tour&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"JUSTIFY">Canal Dinner tour&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"JUSTIFY">Pub crawl&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"JUSTIFY">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Stag Arrest” striptease service&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"JUSTIFY">Striptease steak dinner&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"JUSTIFY">Cannabis coffeeshop tour&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;" align&equals;"JUSTIFY"><b><em>Variation seems to be the name of the game… &colon;<&sol;em> <&sol;b>Amsterdam’s holiday companies vary the product they offer wildly&comma; deftly catering to rowdy stag groups and quiet middle aged sightseers&period; The inherent dichotomy of their product lists is remarkable and reflects the way in which Amsterdam’s increasing popularity is affecting its reputation and character as a tourist destination&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;" align&equals;"JUSTIFY">As more and more people flood into Amsterdam for their holidays every year&comma; it is their expectations&comma; far more than the historic culture of the city&comma; that is influencing how holiday companies market themselves and their activities&period; This means that while more mundane activities like Indoor Karting were once the norm&comma; they are increasingly rubbing elbows with activities and attractions that are inspired by Amsterdam’s raunchy reputation as a den of vice&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;" align&equals;"JUSTIFY"><em><b>Wilder activities have little cultural grounding &colon;<&sol;b><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;" align&equals;"JUSTIFY">The truth is that this is creating a culture of vice in the city that was not present before&period; Many Amsterdammers ascribe this process to the cultural significance ascribed by most foreign visitors to legalised prostitution&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;" align&equals;"JUSTIFY">However&comma; this significance is grossly exaggerated – the fact is that most locals citizens find the whole subject of prostitution deathly boring&period; Regions of the city like <i>De Wallen<&sol;i>&comma; Amsterdam’s largest and most popular red light district&comma; have a reputation for being shamelessly dens of debauchery&comma; but it isn’t prostitution that gives them their rep – <i>De Wallen<&sol;i>’s notoriety for example has a lot more to do with its proximity to the former harbour district and its historically low housing prices&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;" align&equals;"JUSTIFY">In this respect it is like any region of any city in Europe that has a reputation for iniquity – its character has been defined by hundreds of years of economic and social factors&period; Holiday companies however aren’t fussed&comma; and the image of Amsterdam as an &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;anything goes” town is proving to be incredibly profitable as a draw for holiday groups&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;" align&equals;"JUSTIFY">But inevitably&comma; the tension between the local’s perception of their city and that of tourists is going to come into conflict&period; The question will be&comma; simply put&comma; will Amsterdammers kill the goose that lays golden eggs in order to create a more refined character for the city’s tourism industry – and if so&comma; will it survive&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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