Amsterdam banning cruise ships kills 2 birds with one stone: rampant tourism and environmental damage. It’s just the latest place to do it, and probably won’t be the last.

• Tourist destinations around the world are dealing with overcrowding and environmental pollution.
• Amsterdam, Venice, and French Polynesia are among the places that have banned cruise ships.
• The trend is likely to continue as the industry grows and those concerns persist.

Banning cruise ships addresses two major problems that tourism destinations around the world are struggling to contain: hoards of people and environmental destruction.

The Amsterdam City Council passed a measure Thursday that will ban cruise ships from docking in the Dutch capital. Officials said the measure was intended to reduce the sheer number of tourists and curb pollution, problems brought on by the more than a hundred cruise ships that previously docked near the city center each year.