Isn’t this simply a case of tourists and cities overburdened by tourists clashing? As more people become more mobile this will only deteriorate. It could also

Isn’t this simply a case of tourists and cities overburdened by tourists clashing? As more people become more mobile this will only deteriorate. It could also be these cities developing a museum mentality for their historic city centers. In museums it is indeed not allowed to eat and drink and people are not surprised by this and wouldn’t be surprised by someone thrown out of a museum for cooking coffee inside of it. If you start viewing your historic city center the same way you would a museum suddenly these bans make total sense inside your mental model. In many ways you have to treat it like some weird kind of outdoor museum anyway, at least if it’s as overrun by tourists as cities like Florence and Venice are.