Venice, Italy (AP) – Venice is invoice excursions For the famous city of Canal, a tax arrived for the second year from Friday, a measure aimed at fighting the type of surpassing which endangered the status of the world’s world cultural heritage in the city.
A UNESCO body has decided not to put Venice on its List of cultural heritage sites Considered in danger after the announcement of the tax. But the opponents of the trigger costs say that he did nothing to discourage tourists from visiting Venice even on days with a high traffic.
Here is an overview Battle of Venice With suéréchourisme by numbers:
5-10 euros (around $ 6 at $ 11)
The costs invoiced to visitors who are not at night in Venice to enter its historic center during the second year of the trigger tax of a day. Visitors who download a QR code at least three days in advance will pay 5 euros ($ 5.69) – the same amount billed last year throughout the pilot program. But those who make last minute plans pay double. The QR code is required from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and is checked at the city’s entry points, including Santa Lucia station, the Roma Piazzale bus deposit and the Tronchetto parking lot.
54
The number of days this year that day, Venice visitors will be invoiced to enter the historic center. They include most weekends and holidays from April 18 to July 27. It was up 29 years last year. The new calendar covers whole weeks during key holidays and extends the weekend period to include Fridays.
2.4 million euros
This is the amount that Venice took during a pilot program in 2024 for the tax. The city budget manager Michele Zuin said that last year, the operating costs of the new system took place at 2.7 million euros, next to the total costs collected. This year, Zuin projects an excess of around 1 million euros to 1.5 million euros, which will be used to compensate for the cost of collecting waste and other services for residents.
A vest of a steward indicates arrival tax costs for tourists visiting Venice, Italy, Friday April 18, 2025. (AP photo / Antonio Calanni)
450,000
The number of excursionus that paid the tax in 2024. The officials said that 12,744 excursionus had paid to enter the city on Friday – 7173 at the higher rate of 10 euro. They were among the 77,000 people who have registered so far to enter the city this year. 117,000 others have signed up for exemptions, which apply to anyone born in Venice, to those who pay land taxes in the city, to study or work in the historic center or to live in the larger Veneto region, among others.
Venice invoices excursionus from the famous city of Canal and a tax for the second year from Friday, a measure aimed at combating the type of overflowerism that endangered the status of UNESCO’s global cultural heritage of UNESCO.
75,000
The average number of daily visitors over the first 11 days of 2024 that Venice billed excursions. This represents around 10,000 people more than the number of tourists recorded on each of the three important holidays in the previous year. The member of the municipal council, Giovanni Andrea Martini, an opponent of the measure, said that the figures show that the project had not dissuaded visitors.
48 283
The number of official residents of the historic center of Venice composed of more than 100 islands linked by bridges and crossed by its famous channels. The population culminated at 174,000 in 1951, when Venice housed flourishing industries. The number decreased during the post -war economic boom of Italy while the residents moved to the continent for more modern housing – including the interior plumbing that lacked in Venice. It has decreased considerably in recent decades, when the local industry has lost its traction, families have sought the conveniences of the continent and the prices of housing has increased. Activists also blame the “mono-culture” of tourism, which, according to them, has emptied the city of basic services such as stores for everyday goods and medical care.
51 129
The number of beds for tourists from the historic Venice center, including 12,627 on the less regulated short -term rental market, according to April data from the Ocio Housing Activist Group. The number of tourist beds exceeded the number of permanent residents in 2023, according to the Ocio instructor. Anyone who stays in a hotel within the limits of the city, including in the continental districts of Mestre and Marghera, pays a accommodation tax and is therefore exempt from the day trigger tax.
25 to 30 million
The number of annual arrivals of day excursions and night guests confirmed by mobile phone data followed by an intelligent control room since 2020, according to city officials.
The commissioners check the QR codes of tourists outside the main Venice station in Italy, Friday April 18, 2025, while the city for a second year invoices day excursions and a tax on arrivals. (AP photo / Antonio Calanni)
