For a long time Venice is trying to regulate the tourists flows better. This should now also contribute an entrance fee for day visitors. Also other cities in Italy to see this measure as a useful one.
Venice may in the future collect a kind of entrance fee from tourists. The revised budget of the Italian government, which was adopted by the Parliament in Rome. Visitors could then pay for it depending on the season between € 2.50 and a maximum of 10 Euro for the visit to the lagoon city.
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Venice has been fighting for years against the tourist rush and tried again and again with different strategies to keep the masses in check. Hotel guests pay to date a local tax. The new measure should relate only to day-trippers. To pay this entry fee might be about the means of transport such as buses or cruise ships, which bring the travelers to the city.
It would now be considered well-balanced rules that “protect those who in our area to live, study or work,” said Venice’s mayor, Luigi Brugnaro. The money is to be used primarily for the cleaning of the city.
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The hotel Association Federalberghi, said that it is fair, if not only hotel guests pay the “bill”. Association President bernabo Bocca said: “Our cities are not museums and in museums, it is right to buy a ticket”.
Visit Venice according to various estimates, each year between 20 and 30 million people. Especially the day-trippers with its own catering to be viewed critically, because they pay neither in the city nor any of the other posts.
Also in other Italian tourist cities, the call for a solution of the Venetian model, according to the. The mayor of Florence, Dario Nardella, told the newspaper “La Repubblica”, he would support such an Initiative. “You need to have a national law that applies to any city of art.”
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