SEASIDE resorts must crack down on drink-fuelled louts or risk becoming no-go areas for families a tourism chief has warned.

Alan Woods, chief executive of clean beach campaigners Blue Flag, said esorts can resemble "war zones rife with rubbish and soaked with sick and urine" in the morning.

They should sell ciabatta, not chips, and spurn tacky gift shops, he told the conference of beach managers in Blackpool.

Businesses making a mint out of extra opening hours should pay an extra levy to clean up the mess left on the streets, he added.