Amsterdam remains in pole position as the most popular city for retail shopping, a survey by real estate advisor CBRE has ...

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Amsterdam city council is to ban tourist rentals in the heart of the old city and part of the canal area, and will bring in special permits for the rest of the city from July 1. The ban will roughly ...

There are peals of laughter behind me as I snap photos of a sea of colourful tulips in a field an hour’s drive outside Amsterdam city centre. I turn to see a elderly couple chuckling as a woman helps ...

The world’s oldest profession just got some new rules in Amsterdam. The liberal Dutch city’s notorious red-light district will be moved to the outskirts of town in an effort to help legal sex workers ...

Amsterdam officials are set to vote on whether to radically change its historic centre to relocate the famed red light district and attract 'better quality' tourists. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, ...

Amsterdam is to move its red light district to a new “erotic centre” outside the city centre in a bid to overhaul tourism in the Dutch capital. Councillors agreed on plans to move the city’s infamous ...

Amsterdam has banned cruise ships from docking in the city centre in its latest attempt to cut tourism and pollution. Politicians in the Dutch capital said cruise ships were "incompatible" with their ...