Venice Launches Fee for Day-Trippers
by Kiplinger
Kiplinger— People visiting Venice for a day will pay a fee for a limited time as part of pilot program.
Daily Mail—Will charging day trippers £4.30 give Venice back its magic? Inside the City of Bridges as the notorious Access Fee is introduced, with locals describing the measure as 'daylight robbery'. This new measure requires all day-trippers to pay €5 simply for the privilege of being there - which makes La Serenissima the first city in history to charge tourists an entry fee.
The Guardian—‘Recipe for disaster’: Venice entry fee sparks confusion and protest on day one. Some residents say €5 fee aimed at curbing tourist numbers goes against principle of freedom of movementFor more than 160 years, visitors have been arriving at Venezia Santa Lucia train station and disembarking straight into the heart of one of the world’s most historic and beautiful cities. Until Thursday, however, they had never been met by a group of stewards in white and yellow bibs demanding to know if they had downloaded their QR code.On the first day of what the mayor of Venice has hailed...
KTVZ—Pope visits Venice to speak to artists and inmates and finds a city taxing day-trippers like him. By NICOLE WINFIELD and PAOLO SANTALUCIA Associated Press VENICE, Italy (AP) — Venice has always been a place of contrasts, of breathtaking beauty and devastating fragility, where history, religion, art and nature have collided over the centuries to produce an otherworldly gem of a city. But even for a place that prides itself on its