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Venice, Italy, Says the Entry Fee for Day Trippers Will Be Doubled

Travel NewsJanuary 6, 202516Views

Update: November 8, 2024: There has been an update to this story. Click here to read it. The trial period for the controversial new entry fee for Venice Italy, is complete for 2024. For 29 days between April and July (mostly weekends and holidays), the city mandated a charge of €5 (US$5.45) per person to enter…

Venice, Italy, Officially Approves New Entrance Fee for 2024: Here Are the Rules

On September 12, the city council of Venice, Italy, finalized the city's long-postponed plan to battle overcrowding by charging visitors an experimental entry fee in 2024. The final vote of 24-12 was met with protests. Here's what we know so far. Venice's entry ticket will not be required every single day in 2024. On September…

May 2, 2024217Views

In Disney-fication of Venice, world hits its overtourism tipping point

Demonstrators try to break through the blockade created by police officers to enter the city at Piazzale Roma, opposing the charge for tourists to enter the city on April 25, 2024 in Venice, Italy. Today Venice authorities launched a pilot program charging visitors a 5-euro entry fee in the hope that it will discourage at…

April 28, 2024128Views