
Venice to charge daytrippers €10 to enter in 2023
CNN
Venice's long promised reservation system to make daytrippers book tickets to visit the city will launch in July, the authorities have said. An entry fee will be due from January.
(CNN) — As the poster child for overtourism, Venice has long been a city of mounting lines, uncomfortable crowding and mushrooming Airbnbs which are blamed for pricing locals out of the city.
The authorities have long been looking for a way to control things -- with UNESCO's recent threat to remove its World Heritage status hastening the urgency.
The proposed solution? To be the first city in the world to require an entry fee, with a booking system to be set up for daytrippers, and only those holding reservations allowed entry into the city. The plan was announced before the pandemic, and then put on ice, as the city was devastated by the dearth of tourists.