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Puffin13 wrote:Tourism slump predicted
03/09/2008
The Dutch tourism industry is concerned about the future and have began to realise exactly what size of an impact the new crackdown approach the government is showing towards less 'normal' forms of legitimate business will have. Unofficial reports say they're makin poopoo in their pants at the effects it will have longterm.

In a report entitled, Destination Holland 2020 Wattadump, the Netherlands tourism agency predicts sluggish growth for the sector. AD rediculously suggest the slump has been caused by economic slow down in the US and United Kingdom. The strong euro, shitty weather, higher fuel costs, junkies and dealers everywhere, the new flight tax, Bill Gates, the tourist tax, the war..what war...all of them, airport surcharges at Schiphol and the general state of Amsterdam have also taken their toll. However, the ever increasing restrictions being placed upon 'smoking' tourism and the sex industry is more than likely the correct reason everything will go tits up.

Another nutjob reason for the poor predictions is that not enough hotels are being built. Although while the heart and soul of one way of life is destroyed, a staggering 9,000 more hotel rooms will be needed by 2015 to cope with the inlfux of 2.9 million tourists a day from China, who come for a couple of days to see the windmills, tulips or to try on a pair of clogs. Nutters!.