Italy wants fewer tourists. Famous cities that have introduced visitor fees and restrictions

Venice on Thursday became the first city in the world to introduce a payment system for visitors in an experiment aimed at discouraging tourists from arriving during peak periods, Reuters reports. However, this is not the only place in Italy that has recently introduced new measures aimed at slowing tourist flows.

Here are some of the initiatives currently in place:

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The lagoon city has introduced day-trip tickets that cost five euros and are valid from 08:30 to 16:00 local time. The experiment went into effect on April 25, a national holiday in Italy.

Tickets will be required for the next 10 days and then for most weekends until mid-July.

Other cities, such as Come onhave announced that they are considering introducing a similar measure, but are waiting to see how the Venice initiative works before making a decision.

In addition, Venice authorities have said that from June they will limit the size of tourist groups to 25 people and ban the use of loudspeakers by tour guides.

Florence

Florence announced in October that it was banning new short-term residential rentals on platforms like Airbnb in its historic center. It also offered three years of tax breaks to owners of short-term vacation rentals if they start offering regular accommodations to residents.

The city’s famous Uffizi museum offers discounts to people arriving before 08.55 and lower prices in the off-season. To reduce crowding, the museum also closes at 10:00 p.m. once a week.

Cinque Terre

The five villages that make up Cinque Terre on the Italian Riviera are constantly swarmed by visitors.

To try to reduce overcrowding at peak times, the authority that oversees the area said this week it would charge visitors €15 to walk the most famous coastal path. In addition, the path can only be traveled in one direction.

Capri

The picturesque little island across the bay from the southern city of Naples has doubled its entrance fee, which is automatically added to ferry tickets, to €5. The fee will be charged between April 1 and October 1.

Capri, Ischia, Procida, Lampedusa, Linosa

These islands have introduced limits or outright bans on non-resident cars during the main tourist season.

Publisher: IC

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