Venice to start charging admission to enter the city?!
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Anonymous
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In an effort to cut down on touristic overcrowding, the city of Venice will start charging admission on high touristic days—5 euros.
What. A. money grab. How long until other overtouristed areas follow suit? |
Anonymous
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$5.37? Per person? Who will that deter?
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Anonymous
Exactly! If they actually wanted to deter people, charge 100 euros or 250 euros a person. |
Anonymous
Unhoused Romani people? (I kid, I kid) |
Anonymous
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I bet tons of Italian cities will follow their lead.
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Anonymous
| Good! Actually up it to $10 a head and maybe that will keep out the "uhoused Romani"....I don't kid, not at all. |
Anonymous
| Hopefully they are putting it to the cost of mitigating the environmental impact of tourism. Cities used to get thus through hotel tax but now people stay in VRBOs so they get less. Rome has a residence tax on vrbo rental. Costa Rica charges an entry fee for tourists. I don’t object to any of this. Tourism causes some externalized costs on the city which are t always covered by tax revenue from the tourism. If a city finds that the costs exceeds the revenue, a per head price is a good way to internalize the economic externalities. We learned this in Econ 101. Seems very rational to me! |
Anonymous
| We’ve paid 5 euros per person per night to the hotel when we skied in Italy the past two years. I wonder if this is the same thing. |
Anonymous
I don't think this is a bad idea. Italians make you also pay to pee |
Anonymous
| They should charge $500. Ironically this wills make me more likely to go. |
Anonymous
The cheap cruise passengers. |
Anonymous
Nobody. It’s not to “deter” but it’s really just another tax. |
Anonymous
| Good for them. I hope it helps with preservation. |