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Prague, Czechia – 17 October 2024
1. Men holding t-shirt reading (English) "CRAWL WITH ME"
2. Signing reading (English) "PUB CRAWL"
3. Various of participants waiting for start of pub crawl
4. SOUNDBITE (Czech), Adam Zabransky, a member of the city’s council:
"Prague 1 (local municipality) has been calling for a solution to the pub crawls for a long time because it’s evident that people who live in Prague 1 find it very difficult to live around these bars."
5. Various of pub crawl participants outside bar
6. Emrys and Jostar (Last names not provided), pub crawl participants on street outside bar UPSOUND "It is cheaper, good money." "You meet good people, good friends."
9. Men showing off pub crawl t-shirt
10. SOUNDBITE (English),Melissa Haine, pub crawl participant:
"It was very nice. I think it is very funny, and you get to know new people."
11. Participants walking between bars
12. SOUNDBITE (Czech) Adam Zabransky, a member of the city’s council:
"We don’t want to completely support this cheap alco-tourism, which unfortunately is still very common in Prague because it is a cheap city. You can get here from various European places for quite reasonable prices."
13.Various of participants queueing outside bar
17. SOUNDBITE (Czech), Adam Zabransky, a member of the city’s council:
"We don’t prevent tourists from drinking alcohol here or from getting wasted if they want to, but what we would like to see is that drinking is not happening in the streets, but it’s happening in the enclosed spaces that are meant for that."
18. Various of security guard outside bar
21. Various of participants outside bar UPSOUND "We love Prague and we love to party." "It was very nice."
STORYLINE:
The Czech capital went ahead with a move to get rid of an unwelcome business that causes nightmares for the citizens and authorities: the organized pub crawls.
The popular tours of tourist groups moving from bar to bar in Prague’s historical downtown have been one of the negative outcomes of tourism felt across Europe.
Attracting more than seven million tourists last year, Prague finally opted for the ban after trying to deal with the groups of rowdy drunk visitors for years.
It was adopted to address disturbing noise at night, rubbish on the streets and security and reputation concerns, Adam Zabranský, a member of the city’s council who drafted the proposal approved this week.
Zabranský said the aim was not to prevent people from having a drink in this beer loving country but but "we don’t want to support cheap alco-tourism that’s unfortunately still quite common in Prague,” Zabranský told The Associated Press.
The ban will be enforced by the city police force between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. with the organizers of the pub crawls facing fines of up to 100,000 Czech crowns ($4,300) if they violate it. It’s to become effective in November.
The radical move came after the previous efforts to deal with the issue failed, including the appointment of the night mayor in 2019, a city official to work to lower the impact of night life on the residents.
The move is part of the city’s long-term strategy to promote cultural and congressional tourism and in general to attract people to stay longer than just for a weekend and come back again.
An agency organizing the pub crawls called the ban “a populist move” while a group of dozens participants on Thursday apparently enjoyed their experience.
“(The pub crawl) was very nice,” Melissa Haine from Germany said. “I think it’s very funny, and you get to know new people.”
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