Venice to charge day trippers to enter city | BBC News 

I've never been to Venice (yet). However, based on the long lines that I've seen online, Venice could probably charge €15-€20 to enter and it not negatively impact tourism.

5 euro for organise the city for tourists, sounds fair to me.

If you're paying a few hundred euros to travel there, 5€ won't matter. It's just an inconvenience.

I would charge 25€ like museums fees to help out in maintance of it all:)

I've been twice to Venice, was so over crowded. I don't think thats going to help,

13 million x 5 euros = 65 million euros in yearly revenue to maintain the city 😉

It better to charge people the 'real' environment damage cost from flying.

Minimum The charge to €20 ...... to respect the residents.

By day trippers, they mean people on and off cruise ships.

At first I saw the "€5" and thought, "lol, that's probably $0.07 in USD or something, I'm chillin. Then I realized it's a euro and its worth more than the US dollar, fml 😞

Please stop asking questions on your website like “would you pay a Tourist fee to enter Venice?” if there is nowhere for us to respond. The answer is yes, yes I would pay a €5 fee to enter Venice. Frankly, I think they are underselling Venice - I’d pay €50 or €100.

€5 is not a deterrent, let's call it what it is it's a money-making racket.

Hope this fee can help protection of this beautiful city

Is this system prone to scam?

Don't go there then

Kyoto need this too

They can't stop tourists coming into Venice by charging them €5 per day People are spending so much money just to see Venice, €5 will not change anything

Last time I stayed in Venice was during a spring tide, I, being forgetful forgot to check the tide table, the Head Porter was none too pleased when I traipsed dirty water all over the carpet on returning. Average Adriatic tides are a few centimetres, spring ones a metre or so causing extensive flooding in parts of the city.

A simple remedy is to set a maximum # of Reservations booked online, per day at high season, to reduce crowds as many of the National Parks in the US are doing.

Over tourism 😂

How much are car drivers charged? Same as London?

If it's only for day trippers, I say go for it. A lot of these cities with an immense inherent historic value tend to be overcrowded by tourists, it's been very evident in places like Japan. I believe they just did a ban on tourists in an area in Kyoto because tourists kept touching and messing with the Geisha there, a ton of Japan's most historic and beautiful places to visit have had the entire experiences nearly ruined by an abundance of tourists or straight up defacing them. A lot of the beautiful temples and shrines don't feel like special places as much anymore, can't imagine how locals must feel when there ends up being way more tourists there than you're very own people, of which these places are for at the end of day. There's some built specifically for tourism obviously but I'm more so speaking about actual historic landmarks/locations. Edit: typos

Manchester has a visitors fee. This isn't new

Editorial mistake: "It'll be available from now, for 30 days, until April" - It's already the end of April!

Industrial-scale theme-park tourism showing itself to be unsustainable. 🤑🤑🤑🤑

Over-rated city, plenty of other cities in Europe to see.

The residents needs to have some way of controlling the crowds. It's nice to visit, but people live there...

Luckily I visited Venice times already, i spend 3 nights per trip. My fav hostel was a former mills, the sight of giant cruise ship by the window looks like it was about to crash into the building 😢 They can do it like Cairo airport, just pay $35 cash, they put a receipt on my passport!

Fairly reasonable considering York charges bloody £8 to get into a gallery/museum! 😬

It is just an excuse by politicians, 5 euro is too insignificant won’t be enough to discourage day trippers. But a lot of money to spend on politicians’ holidays and new ferraris.

5 euros and you get a free peg for your nose, the place stinks in summer.

no i would not pay for example a cup of coffe is about £11.00 a gondolia ride is nearly hundred pounds if you wish to use the toilets in venice its £6.00 its a total ripp off going to venice theres no sainsbury theres only delicatesen shops that over charge nonono..go to spain it lovely people are friendly and they dont ripp you off.

That's more than a Cornetto

Venice is beautiful and unique but in fact it's over rated, very expensive and stinks...

The reason for the lack of fairness in China is the lack of civil rights of the people!

Imagine being an Italian and having to pay just to go and see a city that's YOURS. Politicians have become Lords

Nonsense, will not discourage anyone. May get more visitors now, more valuable venue.

Venice is so poor now?

Nepal or Bhutan have been charging tourists as well for years now I believe.

I guess I will not be vacationing in Italy

Venice is so overrated and it stinks.

An money take of the 15 minute city

It's not about the money But no thanks Personally I don't like Venezia Between US/Canada and Mexico I have plenty of places to visit Sorry no Europe for me I have been but only a few places are my favorite No Paris for me, Naples or Venezia

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Try charging €5:during an aqua alta. They are just greedy. There is already a hotel room tax.

Stupid system, just enforce it at borders or pass it on to travel tickets (train, airplane, etc.). This is not going to work for more than a few days...

Been a few times some years back. It's ok i wouldn't brag about it to be honest. I wouldn't go again if they charge money. Goodbye tourism

Sadiq Khan would be proud

it's actually time to cap numbers. Save Venice, reduce day visitors.

Do they want to stop the only source of high income of their economy?

I wonder if the decline of the population there stems from people seeking jobs elsewhere, especially young people! I guess most of Venice’s economy rely on tourism!

The “romantic” city uses those canals as the sewers… stinky, but romantic?

Your city has been sinking for years, but this is a new low.

What a world we live in. You need a phone and have to pay to enter a city. I doubt they have it upheld in law .

5 euro in one of the most expensive tourist destination, where a simple pee cost you nearly that much and you overcharge in ALL restaurant...they really think that will reduce the numbers?

I am not that crazy. What will be next?

Any other place that was flooded and stank of sh*t would be classed as a disaster and this place is some jewel I don’t get it. But on another note I won’t be going Glasgow again £60 a day fine for driving into Glasgow now that’s a joke

5 euros? What a joke, It should be way more to keep out tourists

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Great decision make places more beautiful

I think at a higher price point, so to speak, it could be a good idea. I don't think current day trippers will be in any way discouraged by €5 though. I really believe that if they want to create a decrease in the number of day visitors they will need to increase that fee.

When is the BBC going to report on excess de@th after the medical intervention post 2021?.?.?.

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None of this will help . Straight into politicians pockets . Don't you people see the problem Only 5 euros more Only 5 more for the eating fee 5 euros more for the nice view fee I refuse to believe , real thinking people are so accepting of this stuff

Seems fair to me

Well i ain't going then or buying your overpriced trash if you nickel and dime me every way

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Seems reasonable but is definitely not enough, fact is so many of what used to he permanent residences have been transformed into outrageous AirBnbs, hostels, hotels and foreign leisure homes. This is a plaster on a deep cut, but addressing the harder problems will lead to less profitability, so I won't hold my breath

Don't worry. All countries will do the same thing. If you charge, we will charge. No free lunch.

Yeah because 5 eur vs the thousands they spent on that holiday will be the deterrent

began to replenish their budget even more intensively

Won’t deter people, but will be good income for the city

€5 is fair...not so much that it doesn't put it out of reach for everyone but the rich, but enough to help support repairs. Remember, €5 per person...so a family with mother, father, 3 kids would be €25 for one day. If the price was 20 euros per person, many families might be priced out. BUT it might help crowding because instead of visiting the city for 2 or 3 days, they might just visit for one day.

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Unbelievable. And if you refuse to pay will you be arrested? Man if I wanted to be treated like a North Korean I’ll just go to North Korea.

Free money but charge to visit seems weird

Imagine the pressure we could take of our public services and infrastructure if we taxed migrants an extra penny in the £ on income tax and national insurance....

sounds good ....

well worth that price tbf lovely city

Good

and bbc exempted ?

Wow a whole €5 😂😂😂 Might aswell be free lol just do 100

Social engineering propaganda. Travel bad, only for those who can afford it and are willing to be tracked while doing so. The frog slowly boils.

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Good. Enough Walmart-Tourism. Enough of people taking 5.000 Km flights for 20 bucks, staying in 35€ a night hostel, travelling to another continent to go eat at Burger King's, being obnoxious and completely trashing centenarian cities. When you pay for something, you value it. When you take a week and a half, intercontinental vacation with your entire family of four for 1000 bucks, you act like a pig that's been left to roam in the field.

€5 is not enough. Charge €10 instead.

Venice is unique and is sinking, before judging the decision

It is notmal to pay to gi to a toilet 🚽😂

What mafia? There's no such thing!

Without tourists its just a smelly place. Dont they already get ”the turists taxes” from all the turist oriented services? what a sewage law! :))

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Preventing the sheep travelling to other fields!

Too cheap.

It’s already expensive as it is, now this !😮 sorry, pass. Money making setup, don’t buy this tourism thing. They relay heavily on tourism for revenue.

Mafia genes will never change.

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