A few more points..

There are some more aspects of Groninger tourism I'd like to point out.

Bourtange (source: toerisme-groningen.nl)

In the beginning of this blog, I wrote about the tourist gaze, which meant that tourists have certain expectations about the place of visit and that locals tend to act up to that expectations. I then said that this wasn't the case in Groningen. I still think this is true, for the most part. However, there is one place in Groningen where this does happen on a regular basis: Bourtange. Bourtange is a semi-medieval village in the countryside, which still is in the state that it supposedly was around 500 years ago. Tourists go there with the expectation of experiencing life in a fortified village, and the 'locals' (actors) dress up like knights and soldiers to meet that expectation. This is a nice example of the tourist gaze in Groningen.

Another thing I'd like to point out is another form of tourism that is rather typical for the Netherlands in general: drug tourism and sex tourism.  Even though most tourists that seek this kind of adventures goes to Amsterdam, this kind of tourism is very vivid in Groningen. There are 13 coffee shops in the city alone, and about 10 more drug-related shops (smartshops/growshops). This makes Groningen ideal for an anonymous drug tourist.

Nieuwstad (source: redlightdistrict-groningen.nl)

I live next to the (now) only red light district, Nieuwstad, and I've experienced that a large part of the customer is indeed foreign (mostly German or English) and thus a (possible) sex tourist. Striking (and sometimes rather irritating) is that the red light district is the only touristic part of Groningen that is opened for public almost 24/7.

With this post, I tried to show that there might be some exceptions to the things I've stated in this blog, and that I haven't discussed everything that includes tourism in Groningen.

all the coffee shops in Gronigen (source: coffeeshopsinfo.nl)

sources:

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourtange

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drugstoerisme

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sekstoerisme

(photo) http://www.coffeeshopsinfo.nl/coffeeshops-groningen/map