ALTRA VENEZIA

 Photograph: Andrea Merola/EPA Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/09/venice-effort-curb-overtourism-fails-thin-crowds Venice now charges tourists a small fee, while limiting tourist groups and banning loudspeakers, seeking to reduce the impact of overtourism on the city's residents. Photograph: Andrea Merola/EP     Un articolo dal giornale inglese " the guardian ":  "Non ha avuto alcun impatto: Lo sforzo di Venezia per frenare l'overtourism non riesce a ridurre le folle. Le gondole si contendono lo spazio e i turisti continuano ad affollare Piazza San Marco, mentre i critici sostengono che l'approccio frammentario è infruttuoso."    L'ARTICOLO COMPLETO QUI

Photograph: Andrea Merola/EPA Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/09/venice-effort-curb-overtourism-fails-thin-crowds Venice now charges tourists a small fee, while limiting tourist groups and banning loudspeakers, seeking to reduce the impact of overtourism on the city's residents. Photograph: Andrea Merola/EP     Un articolo dal giornale inglese " the guardian ":  "Non ha avuto alcun impatto: Lo sforzo di Venezia per frenare l'overtourism non riesce a ridurre le folle. Le gondole si contendono lo spazio e i turisti continuano ad affollare Piazza San Marco, mentre i critici sostengono che l'approccio frammentario è infruttuoso."    L'ARTICOLO COMPLETO QUI

Source: YTALI. - Author: ALBERTO MADRICARDO - 19th June 2024 Photo : Demonstration against the Ticket Venezia © Andrea Merola.   A Strategy of Diversion The first numerical data regarding the introduction of the entry ticket to Venice and its effects on the number of tourists demonstrate that the measure implemented by the municipal administration lacks any influence on them at all. This was to be expected. Previous experiences of this practice in other places, for example in one which I know directly, Lago di Braies, which is indicated by global social media as one of the 10 places to visit in the world and where in summer the entry ticket to the valley for each car is as high as 20 euros, have even produced the opposite results: the presence of tourists has increased, now not only at peak times, but throughout the year. The municipal administration of Venice shows off the money collected, even if – declares councilor Michele Zuin – “the number of paying peopl...

Source: YTALI. - Author: ALBERTO MADRICARDO - 19th June 2024 Photo : Demonstration against the Ticket Venezia © Andrea Merola.   A Strategy of Diversion The first numerical data regarding the introduction of the entry ticket to Venice and its effects on the number of tourists demonstrate that the measure implemented by the municipal administration lacks any influence on them at all. This was to be expected. Previous experiences of this practice in other places, for example in one which I know directly, Lago di Braies, which is indicated by global social media as one of the 10 places to visit in the world and where in summer the entry ticket to the valley for each car is as high as 20 euros, have even produced the opposite results: the presence of tourists has increased, now not only at peak times, but throughout the year. The municipal administration of Venice shows off the money collected, even if – declares councilor Michele Zuin – “the number of paying peopl...