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Venice Starts Selling Tickets for Day Visitors — Here's When You’ll Need to Buy One
17.01.2024 - 20:39 / travelandleisure.com
Venice has started selling tickets for day visitors to access the canal city in a long-planned effort to charge day travelers and limit tourism.
The tickets, which can be purchased online, will be required to visit the city without an overnight stay on certain peak days in the spring and summer. The fee will cost €5 ($5.43) and will be in effect for travelers over 14 years old from 8.30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
“This fee, a first-of-its-kind experiment, aims at managing visitor influx more effectively and preserving the city's unique heritage, discouraging 'hit-and-run' tourism,” according to Venezia Unica, the city’s official tourism site.
The fee will be in effect from:
Day visitors who pay for the fee in advance will receive a QR code, which they must then show to officials at Venice's main access points. Day travelers who do not pay will be subject to a fine of €50 ($54.29) to €300 ($325.72), plus €10 ($10.86) for the entry fee.
Tourists who are staying overnight will not have to pay the new day fee, but must apply online for an exemption. Overnight guests who book a hotel stay are already subject to a different tax.
The day fee will not apply to travelers visiting smaller islands like Murano or Burano.
The plans to implement a fee, which were first floated in 2019 but postponed several times, come months after UNESCO once again spared Venice from its list of world heritage sites in danger, despite recommendations to add it. Venice has been on UNESCO’s radar for years and was spared the same fate in 2021.
Over the last several years, the city has undergone preservation efforts, including declaring the waterways around Venice a «national monument» and banning large cruise ships from passing through its canals.
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