Amsterdam this week launched a very aggressive urban transformation plan, the city center will not be allowed to open any new bike rental shops, Ji Nianpin shops, travel agencies and other shops.

Even the city's fast-food restaurants also out of the game, these fast-food restaurants can usually sell takeaway food, such as ice cream, waffles and egg pizza shops, in recent years, such stores popular with tourists, the city center quickly emerged the endless stream of fast-food restaurants.

It is clear that the city provide services for tourists in the first place, and the demands of local residents have not been met. "In view of the center of the city, we must take the measures. There are too many identical, only a single service shops for tourists. Many residents and local entrepreneurs are beginning to worry about this phenomenon," deputy mayor of Amsterdam says Kasja Ollongren "our approach is to find for tourists are not allowed to open any stores, we think we should make the city more livable residents here."

The bill will involve about 40 city center streets. Any business you'd like to shop will be subject to government review, the government will be judged according to the shop store advertising, operations and product services, target customers are locals or tourists.

For a lot of tourism contributed income countries, this bill a bit radical, but if you take into account the proportion of the population and land size of the city, things are clear. Amsterdam city center is home to 80,000 people, but it ushered in the tourism population of 17 million per year. Big cities like London or Paris might be able to allow a certain area is full of tourists "occupation", the city will still have a large area for the locals can live for local people to provide services, but this is not Amsterdam and in excellent condition. Walked from one end to Amsterdam takes only 30 minutes to the city and do not have sufficient amount of body can accommodate tourists and residents.

In recent years visitors to Amsterdam for more tightening of policy. This year, the city will lease period Airbnb control within 60 days of the year. Seems to have paid off slightly this year, from January to July, the number of houses in Amsterdam Airbnb dropped from 15,075 to 13,689, a decrease of 9%. Prior to re-open the city also prohibits any currency exchange, souvenir shops and massage parlors and so on. In fact, in recent years suddenly out of the bike rental and ice cream parlors in fact rebound effect of the previous policy.

However, over time, perhaps there will be new stores in the form appeared.