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VENICE, Italy (AP) — Venice is charging day-trippers to the famed canal city an arrivals tax for the second year starting ...
Venice is charging day-trippers to the famed canal city an arrivals tax for the second year starting Friday, a measure aimed ...
As a reporter who covers overtourism, I was a bit nervous to visit Venice. I visited in March and found going in the offseason was a great way to avoid crowds. Here are my best tips for visiting ...
As a reporter who covers overtourism, I was a bit nervous to visit Venice. I visited in March and found going in the offseason was a great way to avoid crowds. Here are my best tips for visiting ...
Venice's daytripper tax is relaunching this week, and the fee has doubled to €10 for last-minute visitors. Mayor Luigi Brugnaro stressed that the tax aims to help the city and its citizens battle ...
Venice introduced the long-discussed daytripper fee after the city narrowly escaped being placed on the UN’s list of endangered heritage sites, due largely to the impact of overtourism.
A leading city transport and tourism official, Arianna Fracasso, told The Independent the scheme aims “to safeguard the city from overtourism”. Around 30 million tourists visit Venice in a ...
Cruise ships were banned from docking in the historic centre of Venice in 2021 in response to a request from Unesco. But the organisation remains concerned about “overtourism, the potential ...