Tulip growers in the Netherlands are pleading with millennials to stop taking selfies among the flowers, after tourists caused thousands in damage by trampling over the plants in search of the perfect photo
Tulip growers in the Netherlands are pleading millennials to stop taking selfies among the flowers, after tourists caused thousands of euros' worth of damage by trampling over the plants in search of the perfect picture.
Now the Dutch tourist board and local growers are fighting back, launching a social media campaign and employing a team of"ambassadors" to tell selfie-takers not to step on the bulbs. "Last year I had one field and there were 200 people in the field," he added."We have to keep them clear ... we have fields nearby the road and all the time, from 10 o'clock in the morning to nine in the evening, they take pictures.""When the tulips are damaged the bulb won't grow," he explained, noting that the selfie-takers ignore some fields in favor of those with pink hues or several different colors.
"It is incredibly tempting, of course, to walk into a tulip field and shoot a picture in the sea of wonderful flowers," an online guide from the board reads, adding:" surely you would not like people to walk into your back yard without asking every day."
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