Venice to Start Charging Day-Trip Tourists With Entrance Fees

Venice to Start Charging Day-Trip Tourists With Entrance Fees
A couple of tourists kiss on St. Mark's Square, with the Italo-Byzantine Roman Catholic Saint Mark's Basilica in the background, in Venice, on Sept. 7, 2018. Laurent Emmanuel/AFP/Getty Images
John Smithies
John Smithies
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Italian tourist destination Venice has been approved to start charging visitors entry fees of as much as $11.50 in a bid to cut down on mass tourism.

The decision, made as part of Italy’s 2019 budget, will target day-trippers that arrive on cruise ships. The move follows the introduction of a similar entrance fee that tourists must pay to visit the Aeolian Islands north of Sicily.

John Smithies
John Smithies
Journalist
A journalist for The EpochTimes based in London. These views are firmly my own.
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