Tourists who stay overnight in a hotel in the Netherlands will pay an average of 2.34 euros in tourist tax per person per night this year. That is more than 8 percent higher than in 2023. Amsterdam once again has the highest tourist tax of 16.76 euros per person per night.
The mayor of Utrecht, Sharon Dijksma, warns fans of PSV and FC Utrecht that they better behave themselves on Sunday. If the atmosphere surrounding the match between the football clubs gets out of hand, they will play their next match without an audience, Dijksma threatened. The mayor is referring to the report that the police were able to prevent a confrontation between hooligans from the two clubs in the neighboring municipality of Maarssen on Friday evening. Six men aged between 22 and 30 from Utrecht and the Stichtse Vecht were arrested and weapons were also seized.
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