Starting in 2024, Venice will charge day-trippers a €5 fee during peak weekend hours
Kyiv • UNN
Starting in 2024, Venice will charge day-trippers €5 during peak weekend hours to reduce overcrowding and encourage longer stays. Only visitors over the age of 14 will have to pay for Saturday day trips from 8:30 to 16:00.
Since 2024, the Venice authorities have decided to introduce a new practice of charging a daily fee of 5 euros from day-trippers who will visit the city during peak hours on weekends. This was reported by the municipality of Venice, UNN reports.
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The main goal of this measure is to reduce crowds, attract tourists for longer visits and improve the quality of life for local residents.
In particular, the mayor of the city, Luigi Bruniaro, noted that this fee is not a new tourist tax or an attempt to increase the city's revenues.
According to him, this is the first experiment of this kind in in regulating tourist crowds in one of the most visited places in the world.
The introduction of the fee, according to Bruniaro, will encourage guests to to avoid periods of massive crowds and visit the city on other days.
This is not a revolution, but the first step on the way to regulating access for daily visitors. An experiment that aims to improve the living conditions in the city, for those who live there and those who work there
The fee will be charged to tourists over the age of 14 for day trips only. years of age, only for day trips during peak hours (8:30 to 16:00) on weekends. days.
Thus, visitors arriving in Venice in the evening or for a concert will be exempt from paying. In general, it is planned to collect this fee for 29 "paid" days, from April 25 to mid-July.
