Tourist management, nightmare crowds at Venice Foot traffic diverted and ferries from Punta Sabbioni moved from San Marco to Fondamente Nuove. These are the two new provisions in the ordinance for the May 1 holiday. By Alberto Vitucci VENEZIA. Foot traffic diverted, and ferries coming from Punta Sabbioni moved to Fondamente Nuove. These are the … More Tourism traffic diversions for May 1 holiday create controversy in Venice

Giovanni Semi is a Venetian sociologist and professor at Torino: “Under the Lagoon runs a river of capital which is ready to snatch up everything and we need to expose it” By Vera Mantengoli VENEZIA. Venice, the city of the expelled. This is the risk we run if we do not break the spell of … More “Venice is bewitched by tourism: it is urgent that we break the spell”

Hours of waiting for public transportation. A sea of tourists and long lines everywhere. The appeal: use alternate routes. VENEZIA. People everywhere. At times a river of people, making it almost impossible to turn back in the other direction. A great deal of patience needed in the Lagoon this Easter Monday. Lines to get on … More Venice, a river of people never seen before on Easter Monday

By Alberto Vitucci VENEZIA. “This is not working”. The Prefect Carlo Boffi has just participated in the inauguration of the San Marco mosaics. A long meeting for two, with the Patriarch Moraglia at the door of the Basilica has ended. He responds dryly to the question as to whether the first Saturday of Carnevale passed … More Limit of 20k in Piazza San Marco for Volo dell’Angelo. Prefect Boffi: “We need to rethink Carnevale and discourage day-visitors”

VENICE Jan. 28, 2018 The echoes of protest continue over the hardships brought on by the inauguration of Carnevale in Canareggio. For 11,000 people it was a dream show, with lights and colors reflecting on the water. For many thousands of others it became a late afternoon decidedly worth forgetting, with tourists declaring that they … More Residents: Prisoners in our own city. Tourists: Venice for Carnevale? Never again!

For the Undersecretary of Cultural Heritage there is no “conspiracy” but rather a tourism emergency. “Operational decisions from the Mayor are required and there is still no agreement regarding the Cruise Ships” By Enrico Tantucci “I am sorry to have to say they are right, but it is evident that already even the world’s public … More Undersecretary of Cultural Heritage Borletti responds to foreign media coverage of Venice: “Personally I don’t see conspiracies”

In recent week reports about tourism and cruise ship pollution have come out from The Guardian and the BBC in England, as well as PBS, CNN, the New York Times in the US and also Reuters. The resoundingly negative coverage prompted Venice Tourism Assessor Paola Mar to suggest that the string of articles was somehow … More English media coverage of Venice and tourism causes furor – Mar cries “Conspiracy”

Who knows what passes through people’s heads when they arrive in Venice. Would it be a sense of impunity? Or a misguided perception that “everything goes”? Somewhere there is a reason, or an impulse, if “normal” people in everyday life feel as though they are stars in a circus as soon as they arrive in … More Venice, the most recent stunts: climbing monuments on video while the parents applaud