Venice to charge tourist entry fee for short stays

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Venice to charge tourist entry fee for short stays

31 December 2018

Venice has won approval to introduce an entry fee of up to €10 (£9; $11.50) for short-stay tourists.

Italy's budget for 2019 has a clause enabling Venice to impose the fee, which will especially target day-trippers arriving on cruise ships.

Tourists already pay a similar "landing tax" when they visit Italy's tiny Aeolian Islands.

Venetians have long complained that mass tourism is swamping the city, adored for its picturesque canals.

Hundreds of cruise ships moor in Venice every year, allowing over a million passengers to see the city's sights.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46721456

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Tourists get taxed to step foot in Venice?

That strikes me as odd, but then I have never been anywhere except USA and Canada.

[OnDoutside]

3. They have to do something, there are too many visiting. Airbnb rentals are also

stopping young locals from getting a place to live there. That said, if you get the chance, you should get to see it. I'd love to go back.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Many countries charge tourists for visas. Some are a couple of $100 and

have to be obtained in advance. It can take 4 or 5 weeks if you're not near an embassy.

[gopiscrap]

6. three of the nations we visited in Africa

charged tourist visa fees. Eritrea 50.00 Ethiopia 16.00 for a 12 hour visit and the Ivory Coast 50.00 Turkey 60.00

[fierywoman]

2. I lived there for seven years, including the year the Berlin Wall fell and

the amount of tourists rose sharply.
It's good for them to tax the cruise ship passengers.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Wise decision.