Venice to charge tourist entry fee for short stays

[webfact]

Venice to charge tourist entry fee for short stays

 

Venice has won approval to introduce an entry fee of up to €10 (£9; $11.50) for short-stay tourists.

 

Italy's budget for 2019 has a clause enabling Venice to impose the fee, which will especially target day-trippers arriving on cruise ships.

 

Tourists already pay a similar "landing tax" when they visit Italy's tiny Aeolian Islands. Venetians have long complained that mass tourism is swamping the city, adored for its picturesque canals.

 

Full story: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46721456

 

-- © Copyright BBC 2019-01-01

[dreaming]

I hope they charge locals the same.

 

Otherwise the italian equivalent of thaivisa is going to go into meltdown

[anon537687643]

Another overcrowded over rated sewer


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[IAMHERE]

The only thing that'l save Venice is another Ice Age. 

[seahorse]

Free pomade with every fee. 

[OneMoreFarang]

How many drinks are included in that price?

 

It's like some bars in Bangkok: You have to buy a drink before you walk in to be sure you don't just look at the show without buying anything.

[Basil B]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Venetians have long complained that mass tourism is swamping the city

and then...

 

                               they will be complaining their takings are down.

[khunPer]

Fair enough, just like paying a relative small fee entering a museum or park...????

[Sir Swagman]

Could maybe suggest to them that Thais pay 2-10 times as much

[sirineou]

6 hours ago, khunPer said:

Fair enough, just like paying a relative small fee entering a museum or park...????

Yes indeed

My sister lives about 15 minutes north and when there we often visit .

Nice to visit , but expensive IMO. The steps at Doge's palace were always under water when ever I went there,

  the additional funds from an entrance fee should help to mitigate some of the problems, I would gladly pay it. 

 

Edited January 1, 2019 by sirineou

[ballpoint]

16 hours ago, markaoffy said:

Another overcrowded over rated sewer


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Come now.  If it wasn't for Venetians it would be curtains for all of us.

[khunPer]

1 hour ago, sirineou said:

Yes indeed

My sister lives about 15 minutes north and when there we often visit .

Nice to visit , but expensive IMO. The steps at Doge's palace were always under water when ever I went there,

  the additional funds from an entrance fee should help to mitigate some of the problems, I would gladly pay it. 

Very expensive in my modest opinion, or I might just be too poor to afford being a frequent visitor; however enjoyed every few time I've been there – always stayed for three days inside Venice, and always been dry, so I've been lucky – and highly recommend the experience, even with an "entrance fee"...????

[sirineou]

15 minutes ago, khunPer said:

Very expensive in my modest opinion, or I might just be too poor to afford being a frequent visitor; however enjoyed every few time I've been there – always stayed for three days inside Venice, and always been dry, so I've been lucky – and highly recommend the experience, even with an "entrance fee"...????

I agree, if it wasn't for my sister and the fact that I have a place to stay for free and a car available to me, I would not be able to visit too often also,

 By  the way, love the food there, Northern Italian cousin is incredible!  I am a vegetarian for the most part, but I always go off the reservation when I am there.

[Nyezhov]

9 hours ago, Basil B said:

and then...

 

                               they will be complaining their takings are down.

they will raise prices then!