- Venice doubles last -minute tourism fees for the trippers.
- The costs, introduced for the first time in 2024, are an attempt to manage the suééchoux and better preserve the city.
- The Venice Tourist’s Head says that other destinations have asked for advice on the copy of the measures.
Venice has doubled its last -minute visitors, the city’s tourist manager saying that his success has prompted other overcrowded tourist destinations to take into account similar measures.
In 2024, the Italian city introduced a load of € 5 for visitors to peak dates, in order to limit overchurism.
The costs will remain € 5, just over $ 5, for those who pay at least four days in advance, but which should reach € 10 for last minute reservations.
Fines so as not to register for an equivalent range of $ 52 to $ 310.
Simone Venturini, the city’s tourism councilor, said during a recent tourism fair that other destinations invaded by tourists sought to follow the example of Venice, which the city’s tourist office has corroborated .
“We confirm that several institutional organizations, both in Italy and abroad, have contacted the city of Venice to better understand the mechanism of access contribution,” said a spokesperson for the Venice Tourist Office Business Insider in an email.
They added that discussions have taken place with Kyoto representatives in Japan, formed will be in Spain and the Swiss city of Zermatt, “in addition to various Italian local authorities”.
The Venice tourism office said that visitors’ fees had generated 2.4 million euros in income for the city in 2024, or around 2.5 million dollars.
He also credited the entrance fees for prevented Venice from hitting the cutting -edge numbers of previous visitors during certain days at high traffic.
The accusation applies to the trippers in the historic center of Venice between 8:30 am and 4 p.m., with exemptions for night guests, local residents, students and those who visit parents.
In 2024, 29 days were applied to high traffic; In 2025, this will extend to 54 days, covering periods from April to July.
During the tourism fair, Venturini said that Venice was a “pioneer” in the fight against overourism.
He declared that the pilot program had worked and that the objective in 2025 remained the same: “Creating a new system to manage the tourist flow and dissuade day tourism into several periods, in accordance with the delicate and unique nature of the city.”
The Venice tourism office said in the press release provided to Bi that, although the costs led to more visits to the reservation of visits, the measure was insufficient to prevent the surprise.
Venice has also tried other means, including the limitation of tourist groups to 25 people and the ban on tours speakers.
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