%0 Thesis
%9 Bachelor
%A Jerkovic, Eva Lin
%D 2022
%F theses_frw:3876
%P 20
%T Managing tourism for a better quality of life
%U https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/3876/
%X Many cities try hard to attract visitors for the benefits it brings to the local economy. Amsterdam is  one of the cities that became extremely successful in terms of visitor numbers. However, with a high  influx of tourists, there are also issues that were brought with it: overcrowdedness, unwanted  behaviour, nuisance etc. Municipality of Amsterdam, realising how these issues affect the locals’  quality of life in the city, came up with new measures to combat them (strengthening  neighbourhood identities, mixed-used development and more). Therefore, this paper aims to  answer how is tourism management improving Amsterdamers’ quality of life? by conducting  interviews and analysing Municipality’s policy document. Amsterdam’s experts on the tourism  industry in the city were participating in the interviews. The results showed some noticeable changes  (mostly regarding redistribution of the tourists) as well as how valuable and promising many  measures are, however, the measures are too recently implemented to be proven fruitful.