Category: Venices
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Venice’s €5 daytripper tax misses the boat: What do locals think the overtourism solution actually is?
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For four months earlier this year, the Italian city of Venice piloted a system of charging extra fees for day trippers. Visitors who were not staying at an overnight accommodation had to pay 5 euros ($5.40) on certain days considered the busiest, including weekends and national holidays. The fee was…
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Venice’s ‘tourist tax’, labeled a ‘miserable failure,’ might not break even this year
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Faced with the risk of sinking and an economy crowding out local residents, Venice last month launched a measure that was as ambitious as it was controversial: a so-called “tourism tax” on day trippers. But after a few weeks, the floating city has done little to prove that it has…