Keeping mass tourism in check: Italian city plans entrance fee for tourists
Created: 01/12/2022, 02:21 PM
From: Franziska Kaindl
Venice has been a tourist hotspot for years.
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Day trippers will soon pay an entrance fee when visiting a popular Italian city.
An official date is not yet known.
Before the corona pandemic, Venice attracted thousands of day-trippers almost every day who wanted to admire the historic city center and the canals.
However, the crowds put a strain on the city's culture and tradition, and locals can hardly pay for the cost of living.
Therefore, an entrance fee for day tourists has been planned since 2019 *, which should help to better direct the flow of visitors.
Due to the corona pandemic, the introduction was postponed, but more specific plans are now known.
5 Euro entry fee per day planned for day tourists
Day tourists are to pay an entrance fee of 5 euros in
future
to visit Venice. The tickets must be booked and paid for online in advance, as reported by the online portal
check24.de
, among others. At the main access points to the city center, gates will be set up where tickets will be checked. But that's not all: 500 cameras are to track down tourists throughout the city center who are traveling in the old town without a ticket. On top of that, according to the police's plan, real-time identity verification should be carried out using the cell phone data. According to Maria Teresa Maniero, the deputy commander of the Venetian Police, this is the way the officers want to find out who is a visitor, resident or commuter.
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Mass tourism in Venice should be curbed
Anyone who lives in Venice or has to commute due to work should be able to stay in the city undisturbed with the help of a virtual key on their smartphone.
The entrance fee aims to curb day tourism and instead promote
“slower tourism”
, as the deputy mayor Simone Venturini explained according to a report by the online portal
reisetopia.de
.
An exact start date for the entrance fee has not yet been set, but it is assumed that it will be in a few weeks.
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Before Corona,
up to 100,000 tourists
romped around the streets of Venice every day.
As a result, the government decided last summer that cruise ships would no longer be allowed to drive too close to the city.
This is also intended to protect the lagoon city's world cultural heritage status.
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