from them an entrance fee. This statement was made on the pages of the local newspaper Corriere del Veneto, the mayor of the city, Luigi Brugnaro. The reason is simple – tourism, in connection with the European Easter holidays, did not have time to start again, as Venice again and clearly encountered “overtourism”.
The statistics of the Easter week – we recall that the Catholics had Easter last weekend – is as follows. About 110,000 tourists arrived in Venice on Friday, another 160,000 on Saturday and 140,000 on Easter Sunday itself. On Monday, the tourist flow did not decrease. On the one hand, the authorities and the tourism industry are happy about this: “Thanks to this turnover, we pay off the accumulated debts, suppliers and salaries,” said Claudio Scarpa, director of the Venice Hoteliers Association. On the other hand, the tourist rush has led to huge queues everywhere – for sea-vaporetto trams, in museums, in churches, especially in the Cathedral of San Marco … The police are in alarm – the local chief Marco Agostini notes that it is extremely difficult to work.
< p>As a result, in the summer Venice can start accepting only “by appointment”. “Booking a trip to the city is the right way to manage tourism in a more balanced way. We will be the first in the world in this difficult experiment,” the mayor of the city assured. It will take several months to “fine-tune the booking platform,” he said.
The bottom line is that all tourists who arrive in Venice will have to book tickets on a special website, which will be introduced in the coming weeks. At the same time, experts note that residents and tourists who stay overnight in hotels and non-hotel facilities will be automatically registered, those who arrived one day will have to enter their data on the portal. At the same time, Venice will not be able to block access to “unregistered” tourists – but they plan to make registration attractive, thanks to incentives – such tourists will be offered discounts and priority visits to museums and public transport, as well as disincentives – unregistered people will face queues and higher tariffs. However, fines for fake bookings are already being considered.
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