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[QUOTE=Sydney Morning Herald]Tourism to Berlin is booming as never before and filling the debt-ridden city's coffers with much-needed cash, but not all Berliners are cheering the influx of visitors.
Some blame the tourists, especially the young 20-something "Easyjet set" who ride the budget airline to party through the night in the uber-cool, hedonistic German capital, for a host of ills from rising rents to noise pollution.
"Noisy tourists go home!" reads one hostile sign in the eastern district of Friedrichshain. "Berlin doesn't love you," say stickers plastering traffic lights in nearby Kreuzberg.
A gallery in an area known for its trendy bars featured for months a scrawled sign in the window: "Sorry, no entry for hipsters from the US".
"We've seen people insulted for looking like tourists or get disparaging looks," said David Schuster, an activist for a local leftist group that has launched a tourist-friendly awareness drive.
"There's some resentment that tourists party loudly or throw up on the streets," Schuster said. "I think many Berliners do too, but they feel entitled to act that way."
Berlin, now Europe's third most visited city after the more established magnets London and Paris, can ill afford to scare away the tourists.
Tourism generated gross revenues of 10.3 billion euros ($A12.8 billion) last year, equal to nearly 10 per cent of the city budget, a recent study by the Berlin government said. That is more than either real estate or consumer goods production, two other expanding branches of Berlin's otherwise plodding economy, it showed.
Nine new hotels are set to open by 2013.
Yet this summer, visiting investors at a business convention were attacked by some hundred demonstrators and a newly opened "organic hotel" was vandalised by anti-gentrification activists.
These protests represent those of a small minority, said Burkhardt Kieker, director of VisitBerlin, the city's main tourist service agency.
"Berlin is regaining the status of a world city. We are becoming a mass tour destination. The average Berliner is honoured by the tourists," he said.
"Paris and London have had hundreds of years to get used to their many visitors. We've only had 20 so far," he said, referring to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
The fall led to the reunification of Germany, the reinstatement of Berlin as the German capital and some glittering restorations, which have made the city an attractive destination for tourists.[/QUOTE]
Source: [url]http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/no-entry-for-hipsters--berliners-unhappy-with-tourist-boom-20120917-2618m.html[/url]
i hated hipsters before it was cool and mainstream
This is a victory for the glorious Socialist republic of Germany.
But you can still get that good ol' animal porn.
[quote]A gallery in an area known for its trendy bars featured for months a scrawled sign in the window: "Sorry, no entry for hipsters from the US".[/quote]
Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit.
[QUOTE=ShootEvryRapper;37709299]But you can still get that good ol' animal porn.[/QUOTE]
i liked animal porn before it was cool
Wouldn't banning hipsters be non-mainstream and therefore make Germany a hipster?
Germany banned hipsters before it was cool
and where at all did it say anything about a ban
it was just a lot of germans complaining about annoying tourists
[QUOTE=Ylsid;37709374]and where at all did it say anything about a ban
it was just a lot of germans complaining about annoying tourists[/QUOTE]
Welcome again to Sensationalist Headlines
[QUOTE=Pyth;37709331]Wouldn't banning hipsters be non-mainstream and therefore make Germany a hipster?[/QUOTE]
"and in destroying the hipster - they became him"
Berlin is in debt???
how is that fucking possible where is all the money interest money from the bailouts going to
DamagePoint, did you really feel the need to make such a shitty inaccurate title?
A lot of my friends drive to Berlin to party, it's a two hour Autobahn drive. I don't really like it, it's the ultimate hipster capital, I can assure that, arts and street art and electronica everywhere and the few times I've been there every cliché was true.
"I have this project, Theater, we are still working the details out... "
Blargh
[QUOTE=Killuah;37709956]arts and street art and electronica everywhere[/QUOTE]
sweet it's like a permanent music festival
[QUOTE=Pyth;37709331]Wouldn't banning hipsters be non-mainstream and therefore make Germany a hipster?[/QUOTE]
A day later,Germany has banned itself and ceased to exist.
[QUOTE=thisispain;37709963]sweet it's like a permanent music festival[/QUOTE]
just missing cheap drugs available everywhere and lots of bootleg booze.
Oh, and tents in all weird places.
[I]Dear Tumblr Diary
I was banned from germany
Assholes should check their privilege!
They just wish they heard of the Barlington Bear Badger and Jesus ba-[/I]
Cocks the starbucks wifi went down
[QUOTE=Van-man;37710223]just missing cheap drugs available everywhere and lots of bootleg booze.
Oh, and tents in all weird places.[/QUOTE]
nope Berlin has those in spades
also very clean streets
not as clean as Dusseldorf but still pretty clean
Now I should chase them out of my old bar which became a hipster club in the past.[IMG]http://sae.tweek.us/static/images/emoticons/mad.gif[/IMG]
I dont get this. Berlin and especially Kreuzberg is germanys hipster Hochburg. If you go out drinking, prepare to meet nothing but hipsters.
[QUOTE=BloodYScar;37710451]I dont get this. Berlin and especially Kreuzberg is germanys hipster Hochburg. If you go out drinking, prepare to meet nothing but hipsters.[/QUOTE]
They're [B]TOURISTS[/B].
Difference between native hipsters, and hipster tourists.
[SUP][SUP](Talking about them as if they're their group of mammals)[/SUP][/SUP]
what's next jews??
[QUOTE=Rusty100;37710509]what's next jews??[/QUOTE]
what? I thought germany already got rid of them.
Also I guess you could still visit Munich.
[QUOTE=Van-man;37710495]They're [B]TOURISTS[/B].
Difference between native hipsters, and hipster tourists.
[SUP][SUP](Talking about them as if they're their group of mammals)[/SUP][/SUP][/QUOTE]
Nope they arent. I spend my evenings in Kreuzberg, i should know.
[QUOTE=thelurker1234;37710667]what? I thought germany already got rid of them.
Also I guess you could still visit Munich.[/QUOTE]
oh snap 2 insensitive
germany bans freedom of expression
where have I heard this before
[QUOTE=Pyth;37709331]Wouldn't banning hipsters be non-mainstream and therefore make Germany a hipster?[/QUOTE]
Suddenly Germany just implodes.
[QUOTE=DrBreen;37709815]Berlin is in debt???
how is that fucking possible where is all the money interest money from the bailouts going to[/QUOTE]
When you burn half of the Europe to the ground (twice), you tend to accumulate a lot of incidental expenditures that don't go away easily. :v:
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