There are some people who don’t want to pay five euros and others who are asking for the price to be twenty or thirty euros, with transportation and services included By Maria Ducoli April 22, 2024 It wasn’t yet half past ten, but Venice was already like an aquarium full of fish, too many of … More The Last Sunday Without an Entry Ticket to Venice and the Measure Remains Divisive
Guides will no longer be able to use small megaphones but only systems with earphones. Guides Association: “This is the right choice, but the important thing is the ability to enforce it” By Carlo Mion December 31, 2023 Tour groups with guides in Venice can have no more than 25 people. This was decided by … More New Restrictions on Tourist Groups Coming in Venice: Limit of 25 People and a Ban on Megaphones
The entry fee is also included in the document, which is scheduled to be approved in January. Italia Nostra and the opposition have written to the Municipality to ask that the discussion be made public and that there be more involvement from the citizens, but have received no response By P. Baron December 14, 2023 … More Venice: Excavation of the Vittorio Emanuele Canal Inserted in New UNESCO Management Plan
Bars and restaurants invade campos and calli and drive out local services and shops. Every Venetian leaving home sees how the city is being transformed: considerations starting from the changes in the storefronts in Campo San Giacomo da l’Orio By Mario Santi November 18, 2023 On the corner that goes from the campo to Calle … More The “Urban Degeneration” that Makes Living in Venice Even More Difficult
A Phenomenology of Short-term Tourist Rentals. What are we talking about when we call for their regulation? For years OCIO (Civic Observatory on housing and residential populations) has argued for the need to regulate short-term tourist rentals to protect residential populations and combat the lack of sustainably priced housing on the residential market. Despite several … More A Phenomenology of Short-term Tourist Rentals, by OCIO
Analyses conducted by the University of Padua and Ca’ Foscari on mollusks reveal that there are poisons in quantities 120 times higher than in the rest of the lagoon on the bottom of the canal that will be excavated to allow cruise ship to enter. And any excavation method will release them into the waters … More Venice and the Poisons of the Small Canal. Study Reveals the Dangers of the Vittorio Emanuele Excavation
Her opposition to the idea limiting the number of tourists was expressed at the Anci assembly in Genoa. Councilor Zuin responded by specifying: “There will be no limited number… It’s a reservation, like you make to visit the Statue of Liberty”. The threshold will merely determine the entry price By Mitia Chiarin October 27, 2023 … More Zuin Responds to Minister Santanché: No Limits on Visitors to Venice
The city counts 40,000 visitors a day and less than 50,000 residents: with an average of 5,048 tourists per square kilometer the historic center of Venice is the most densely populated area in the entire region. October 14, 2023 By Laura Berlinghieri Over 5,000 tourists per square kilometer: some kind of crowd, you might say. … More Five Thousand Tourists per Square Kilometer. Venice is the Capital of Destructive Tourism
Excavation projects for over 2.2 million cubic meters of sediment meant to clear the way for 160 cruise ships per year to dock at Marittima Station via the Malamocco-Marghera Canal and the Vittorio Emanuele III Canal, “likely by spring of 2027”. Sept. 19, 2023 Port Authority of Venice President Fulvio Lino di Blasio announced plans … More Excavation Projects Announced to Bring Cruise Ships Back to Marittima Station
There is no doubt that the Venetian community will soon have to reckon with the tourism overload that is oppressing it, regardless of all the entry fees and tax alchemies devised so far by the current council and the “homework” that it has declared will be completed by December 2024…it will no longer be possible … More UNESCO. The Bluff of the Dual Role Between Protecting Heritage and Commercial Policy
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