Over-tourism: Venice launches world’s 1st tourist entry fee to dissuade visitors

Heading to Europe soon? Well, you may have to pay up.
With 2024 forecasted to be a record-breaking year for air travel, some of the world's most popular tourist destinations are introducing paywall tactics.
Global’s Redmond Shannon takes us to Venice, where in a global first, the city has begun charging day-trippers for their visit, as tensions grow over fears of so-called "over-tourism.”
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[@dboi4952]

I live in New Orleans and i often say to myself that i feel like i live in an amusement park. I just thank God that the tourists pretty much stay in the downtown area.

[@user-eo1vz9lt8g]

"locals have been squeezed out of the rental market and their environment is under threat"" , so is this story about Canada?

[@IXXVIIVII]

It requires logic to translate from Italy or France

[@bobwoods1302]

Russia doesn't have the problem of too many people wanting to visit😂

[@djp1234]

Don't worry. There will be a lot more Venices soon.

[@chrislim7976]

What is the appeal of going to a place overrun by tourists. These look like "cruise ship" people.

[@patientzero291]

Your crime rate and cost of visitation will drive tourism away.

[@user-xu3yk3dw6k]

I spoke to Police (Australia) Queensland. Nobody has to enroll to vote. If you do, you play by their rules, if you don’t, well, you never agreed to play by their rules. You can never be fined, or, anything really… If it was the start of the world & there are 10 people, would you enroll to vote… eh… User-xu3yk3dw6k

[@dixonpinfold2582]

It's been nearly a lifetime since beleaguered Venetians added _hyperturistificazione_ to their vocabulary. (Almost more of a sentence than a word, really. English: _overtourism.)_

[@jeffros6739]

Just go somewhere else then that will fix that

[@speciallevo3170]

Poor people. All those tourists spending their money on their city. Must be rough.

[@rayerickson7614]

Poor planet. All those tourists destroying the climate with all their fossil fuels for non essentials.

[@esparda07]

Don't other countries also have tourist fees?

[@kmama6715]

😂Welcome to Canada. You can choose to be refugees here and tax payers will pay for you. You can get free healthcare and don’t mind the waiting list. We also have high crime rate today. Trudeau and Freeland love you❤❤❤

[@IXXVIIVII]

There’s some tourism for you near Grande Prairie Northern Alberta. Try boating in a bitumen lake

[@BornKafir]

@@IXXVIIVII Do you dive into tailing ponds often? Is Moraine Lake also a bitumen lake?

[@IXXVIIVII]

@@BornKafir The ELA was to water ecology what the supercollider is to physics and Stephen Harper killed it

[@MsMarmima]

Ban Airbnb

[@rayerickson7614]

@Rocksteady-hl2ks because tourism is the cause of climate change and global warming

[@GG-lv3xd]

ive lived in a tourist hotspot before. I know they are coming. you can't change it. But for off season there could be some sort of management

[@superduperfly6076]

Venice stinks, is overrated and overpriced. There are more beautiful places to visit in Italy.

[@ScreamingReelsTV]

0:50 Yes, this is who I think of when I think "Italian man." Probably spells his name, G-Yah-Kamow.

[@eddy5097]

Doesn't PEI do the same

[@MrDigit885]

That's just normal bridge toll per car 55$ I think

[@eddy5097]

It's also a deterrent

[@korky7674]

Over enriched more like it!

[@joannastjacques5692]

Mexico has had visitor fees for years

[@SRM_NZ]

8 billion on our way to 16 billion....

[@hibbityhoobla6624]

Anyway to get extra revenue! So should we start over charging businessman the same fee who live in other countries

[@rayerickson7614]

yes

[@BornKafir]

Canada, take lesson. Charge the foreigners, diploma mill students, and TFW much more money to enter.

[@Ruckus911]

What a dumb idea....lets drive away investment, and tourism.. SMH

[@BornKafir]

@@Ruckus911 The diploma mill attending students are not here with investment. Our current system allowed so-called tourists to just stay here and live off our system. File a false case and get permanent residence as an asylum seeker. Charge a huge premium so only those who can afford to come would show up. Filter out the would-be freeloaders. Canada is a safe and rich country. Investment will continue to pour in as long as we have industry and we continue to be a Western liberal democracy.

[@colinsellers1143]

I miss crackin a joke with a cashier...... now i just get a confused look followed with. Soddy?

[@VikingMale]

They keep deleting my comment about no to this

[@seanhiggins2740]

Since when did any of these places want to refuse big tourism money? That's the foundation of their prospering economy. Really, these governments are trying to condition people to accept QR codes, internal borders and taxes for domestic travel.

[@AmbushRL.]

To ensure that the lives of Venetians don't remain a living hell.

[@seanhiggins2740]

@@AmbushRL. If they don't want the tourism money, they can leave. The purpose of Venice was never meant to be a quiet retirement community.

[@AmbushRL.]

@@seanhiggins2740 Venice was meant to be a city. People have always lived there.

[@bobwoods1302]

Russia will never have the problem of too many people wanting to visit

[@buddyguy4723]

Baseless assertions

[@OmniFilm-dk8ox]

Obviously you have not been to St Petersburg or Moscow ....lots of tourism

[@Hallands.]

Clearly this was never intended to reduce tourism, the fee is too small for that, but it’s a source of income. By the way, where do the money go? 😂

[@shelleyterpstra5719]

Great idea ❤. Protect your resources and your home 😊

[@carmenlajoie2719]

Nearly 7 million tourists visited China for Spring Festival 2024. CGTN The Point-Hub-Heat, Reporterfy Media-Cyrus Janssen.

[@user-xu3yk3dw6k]

I spoke to Police (Australia) Queensland. Nobody has to enroll to vote. If you do, you play by their rules, if you don’t, well, you never agreed to play by their rules. You can never be fined, or, anything really… If it was the start of the world & there are 10 people, would you enroll to vote… eh… User-xu3yk3dw6k

[@1ABNDT]

😂🤣Go woke, go BROKE!

[@AmbushRL.]

What?

[@colinsellers1143]

all i can hear is baaaah baaaah baaaah 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑

[@rayerickson7614]

Good. We would not have climate change if it wasnt for tourists. If you care about our planet then you should vote to ban tourism.

[@AmbushRL.]

Banning tourism is ridiculous. I would prevent over-tourism but outright banning it is insane. That would be pretty much turning every country into a North Korea, where citizens aren't allowed to leave.

[@rayerickson7614]

@@AmbushRL. Then you are not serious about stopping climate change.