A majority of parties in Copenhagen City Council are in favour of stopping the establishment of new hotels in central Copenhagen (see map below). Instead, they want tourists to be spread out across the city as a whole, according to a press statement from the council.
"It's important that tourists are in the whole city, because we don't want to end up like other big European cities where parts of the city end up like tourist backdrops with no life or everyday soul," Mayor Sisse Marie Welling wrote in a press statement.
"It's about balance, so that there's space to live your everyday life and use the inner city, if you live there, while at the same time spreading out tourism across all the other good things Copenhagen has to offer," she added.
The proposal, which the Green Left, Red-Green Alliance, Social Democrats and Conservatives are all in favour of, will go to a vote on April 30th.
The four parties hold 38 of the council's 55 seats.
It will still be possible for hotels in the inner city to be established in certain specific cases.
"New hotels can be established around large squares with a Metro service like Kongens Nytorv, Nørreport and Rådhuspladsen, if there is a political majority in favour, if the project has high aesthetic and architectural value and if it can fit in with consideration for the local area," the press release reads, adding that this will however require the council to write up a supplementary agreement.
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