Popular European city bans late-night bar crawls attempting to curb drunk tourists

As European cities grapple pinch overtourism, officials are making attempts to tackle immoderate concerns that travel on pinch visitors.

Prague, superior metropolis of nan Czech Republic, has enforced a prohibition connected organized nighttime pub crawls, according to The Associated Press (AP). 

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The celebrated activity of circuit groups hopping from bar to bar has caused a operation among nan city’s assembly committee pinch complaints of sound and information concerns.

Prague has passed a prohibition connected late-night barroom crawls to beryllium put successful spot betwixt 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. to curb sound and information concerns. (iStock)

"We don’t want to support cheap alco-tourism that’s unluckily still rather communal successful Prague," Adam Zabranský, a personnel of nan city’s assembly who drafted nan proposal, told nan AP.

Prague drew successful astir 5.45 million visitors complete nan first 3 quarters of 2023, according to nan Czech Statistical Office.

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The prohibition will beryllium put successful spot betwixt 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. pinch fines of up to 100,000 koruna (roughly $4,300) fixed to organizers of nan crawls.

Prague drew successful astir 5.45 cardinal visitors complete nan first 3 quarters of 2023, according to nan Czech Statistical Office. (iStock)

Czechia has nan third-highest intoxicant depletion wide successful nan European Union, down Lithuania and Latvia, according to nan Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, headquartered successful Paris, France.

Zabranský says work should beryllium placed connected nan barroom owners who person establishments that participate successful nan activity.

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"As it is, nan residents successful nan engaged areas look nan antagonistic consequences while nan bar owners participating successful nan pub crawls make profit and don’t attraction astir nan problems," he told nan AP.

Alcohol depletion successful Czechia has decreased pinch nan number of group who portion intoxicant either daily, aliases each different day. (iStock)

Alcohol depletion successful Czechia has decreased pinch nan number of group who portion intoxicant either daily, aliases each different day, by 19.8 to 15.4 % betwixt nan years 2020 and 2021, according to nan National Institute of Public Health.

"People coming to acquisition civilization behave otherwise than those who get to portion each play long," Zabranský said.

In parts of nan islands of Majorcam, Llucmajor, Palma and Calvia, and nan area of San Antonio successful Ibizia, nan Spanish authorities has group restrictions.

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Policies specified arsenic limiting nan waste of alcohol and banning depletion connected streets person been enforced, according to Sky News.

The prohibition will return effect successful November.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.