Travel Tourists trample flock to the beautiful tulip fields of the Netherlands with all their jumping and selfiegeweld make a ridiculous amount of tulips broken. According to breeders it is even getting worse. With a campaign they want to try the fields.
stop There again for a couple of cars at the roadside. Tourists steps with a phone in the attack and work their way right through the tulips to go in search of the best place for a selfie. Some attempt to make themselves jump up the tulips from capture. Others dance the daffodils flat or go in the middle of the lie.
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It is for bulb grower Simon Pennings in Noordwijkerhout painful to see that they are so careless. “We get large groups of people to visit, which we very nice and fun, but they trample everything flat. That is sin and we suffer damage. Last year I had a plot with 10,000 dollars damage. Everything was trampled. In this region, I have fifty plots, you can check. But it’s not just me. My colleagues also have hundreds of plots.’
According to Pennings, the ‘every year is one step worse’. “We experienced it that way,” he explains. “They want to be that selfie.” Social media help a hand, think spokeswoman Nicole van Lieshout of the local TOURIST office, that it is indeed getting busier and looks to be in the bulb. “The pictures go all over the world. Everyone wants just a gekkere and nicer photo, landscape, or dancing between the flowers. I understand, but on the other hand, it is also very important that they have that respect for those who have their life’s work have been made and there every day from early until late.’