Venice to introduce entry tickets and fees
After ~9 years in California, I moved from San Francisco to Venice, Italy (Venezia) in late 2020. (I am originally from Italy).<p>Venice is an amazing city, and it&#x27;s not as expensive as people think, if you plan to stay long term.<p>When the Covid-19 situation got better in early 2022, TONS of tourists came back, and Venice is now more crowded than it was before the pandemic.<p>Residents (of the historical city center, or the &quot;main&quot; Venice), down to a total of about 50,000 (from a peak of ~175,000 [0]), are really angry at the overcrowding and are looking for solutions.<p>In certain weekends this year, the number of visitors reached 130,000 per day, which is about twice as much as the city can support without deterioration of city life and services.<p>Entry tickets, if handled properly, could be a great way to fix the issue.<p>The current solution has some flaws, and I don&#x27;t believe that it will solve the issue properly. (overnight visitors don&#x27;t pay; ferry rides are not integrated in the ticket; etc).<p>I believe that the right structure should include a combination of:<p>1) expensive tickets (€50 per day per person) that allow you to come regardless of any other limitation.<p>2) advance purchase tickets (€5 per day per person)<p>3) progressive tickets (starting at €5 per day per person, but going as high as €25 when the number of visitors in a given day approaches 60,000).<p>Also, the parking system (Tronchetto and Piazzale Roma), owned by private companies, should introduce a similar progressive ticket, but the extra income should go to the municipality, not to the private company.<p>The extra money earned this way should go towards improving the logistics of the city, easing the pressure that tourism puts on the residents.<p>My 0.02.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;allaboutvenice.com&#x2F;venice-population&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;allaboutvenice.com&#x2F;venice-population&#x2F;</a>