Venice Day Trip: Tourists need to reserve visit in advance
Created: 04/26/2022, 15:12
The Italian lagoon city of Venice wants to oblige tourists to reserve their excursions to the old town by the summer.
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Venice has decided to break new ground in terms of tourism.
In order to better manage the crowds in the future, visits to the old town will require reservations.
Venice - The Italian lagoon city of Venice wants to oblige tourists to reserve their trip to the old town in advance by the summer.
From 2023, visitors should buy a ticket to visit the historic center, said Venice Tourism Commissioner Simone Venturini.
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The city wants to announce in the coming weeks when the
free online reservation
will be necessary.
The municipality wants to be able to better plan in advance how many people will be in the city.
As the Italian daily newspaper
La Repubblica
reports, a six-month test phase will then follow from June, during which visitors will have to register for the entrance fee on a website.
Depending on the season, a fee of 3 and 10 euros will be due.
In return, tourists receive discounted entrance fees for museums or other institutions.
However, details are still to be worked out.
However, only day trippers are affected – overnight guests do not have to pay an entrance fee.
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According to media reports,
hundreds of thousands of visitors came to Venice
around
Easter
.
Long queues formed at popular attractions such as St. Mark's Basilica.
"Tourism in Venice is starting again," Mayor Luigi Brugnaro wrote on Twitter on Easter Monday.
"Today, many have understood that booking for the city is the right way for balanced tourism management," he continued.
The ticket for 2023 is especially important for
day trippers
to the UNESCO World Heritage Site.
According to Venturini, anyone who books a hotel in Venice should not have to worry about it.
Locals don't need the ticket anyway.
Many of them have been upset about mass tourism in the "Serenissima" for years.
During the corona pandemic, the number of visitors dropped significantly, but the demand was to better control the flow of tourists in the future.
(dpa)