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Town of Venice will double the price of its day journey payment subsequent yr for last-minute vacationers and enhance the variety of days vacationers must pay within the second iteration of this system supposed to fight overtourism.
Subsequent summer season, Venice would require vacationers who come for the day to pay €10 ($10.83) if they arrive last-minute, in response to the Municipality of Venice. Vacationers who ebook prematurely — at the least 4 days earlier than coming — will proceed to pay the €5 ($5.42) payment.
In 2025, the payment can be in impact over 54 days from April 18 by means of July 27. Vacationers must pay the day journey tax each Friday by means of Sunday and on holidays throughout peak hours from 8.30 a.m. to 4 p.m., The Related Press reported.
“In #Venice we try to deal with the difficulty of overtourism, by introducing a system of bookability for the Metropolis,” Venice’s Mayor Luigi Brugnaro mentioned in an announcement on X. “Due to the work of many individuals… we’ve got managed to start out this experiment since 2024, regardless of criticism and disputes.”
Venice, which was spared from UNESCO’s listing of world heritage websites at risk regardless of suggestions so as to add it, first applied its day journey payment this previous summer season, requiring vacationers to pay €5 ($5.42) over 29 days throughout most weekends from April by means of mid-July. In a single day company who ebook a lodge keep have been exempt from the payment as they have been already topic to a distinct tax.
This yr, Venice collected €2.4 million ($2.6 million) over the course of the check, the AP reported.
“Venice is the primary metropolis on this planet that tries to handle the issue of overtourism,” Brugnaro mentioned, in response to the wire service. “We obtained essential outcomes.”
The day journey payment isn’t town’s solely effort to deal with crowding. Earlier this yr, town took steps to restrict the variety of vacationers allowed in tour teams in each Venice’s historic middle in addition to the favored islands of Murano, Burano, and Torcello.
