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Venice rolls out day-tripper fee to try to regulate mass crowds on peak weekends
(english.elpais.com)
this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2023
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Thanks for sharing, it seems like my family's next vacation will be in Slovenia again, which is just as beautiful and less expensive/hostile.
Vacations are expensive enough without the added tourist tax.
Bit dramatic of you to call a $5.45 fee hostile. Venice is legitimately overcrowded during tourist season and has a lot of problems to deal with to even literally stay above water right now. I'm sure they won't miss you.
If a family plans a trip that involves an international flight, accommodation and preparation, a โฌ6 is not going to change a thing. This seems more like an easy, state-sponsored money grab than a legitimate effort to better manage over-tourism.
The fee will be payed only by people who stay in the city just for the day. The idea is to discourage this kind of "fast tourism" in favour of people who instead spend more days in the city (then of course, the actual efficacy of this method for reducing overcrowding is to be seen)