Prague’s municipal council has decided to outlaw travel companies’ night-time bar crawls in an effort to attract “more cultured” visitors, reports RTE.
Pub crawling and boisterous stag parties have long been common in the 1.3 million-person Czech capital.
Zdenek Hrib, the city’s deputy mayor, informed reporters yesterday that planned bar crawls at night would no longer be permitted.
“It will not be possible to have guided tours between 10pm and 6am,” he added, reports RTE.
Prague city hall is “looking for a more cultured, wealthier tourist… not one who comes for a short time only to get drunk,” according to Jiri Pospisil, another deputy mayor.
For years, foreign beer enthusiasts have contributed to the Czech Republic’s continued status as the thirstiest country in the world, reports RTE.
Despite a gradual fall after the Covid-19 epidemic struck in 2020, the typical Czech, including infants, drank a world-record 128 litres of beer in 2023.
Many bars in the UNESCO-listed historic city provide the renowned local lager for less than €3 a pint, and some eateries still serve beer for less than water.
The Czech Association of Hotels and Restaurants’ president, Vaclav Starek, applauded the municipal hall’s choice.
“Trips to the centre in search of beer have been a problem for local people and for other tourists too. I don’t think this will hurt our sales. Nobody will be banned from going to a pub but these nightly organised pub crawls… are nothing we would need,” reports RTE.
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