Venice expands tourist fee for 2025
Tourism hotspot Venice will beef up measures to combat overcrowding next year, after a ‘successful’ trial this past summer.
The city will nearly double the number of ‘peak tourism’ days it charges tourists an entrance fee in 2025, the city’s mayor said.
The €5 fee is payable to enter the city as a day tripper on certain peak days between April and July.
The fee is payable in advance but rises to €10 if booked less than four days before the visit.
Mayor Luigi Brugnaro said the measure is to spread out tourist visits to quieter off-season days ‘to give Venice the respect it deserves.’
The fee was payable on 29 days in 2024 which were mostly weekends and public holidays.
For 2025, the number of days will almost double.
From 18 April to 27 July 2025, there will be a total of 54 days – every Friday through Sunday and every public holiday.
All day trip visitors over 14 years old must pay the fee.
The fee can be paid online and a QR code confirmation is generated which may be checked by inspectors within the city.
Travellers staying overnight with hotel or other accommodation bookings are exempt.
“Venice has gone from being the city most exposed to overtourism, to being the city that is reacting to this phenomenon the earliest and most proactively,” said city councillor Simone Venturini.
Venice collected about €2.4m in entrance fees last summer.
Critics also argued that the ships were causing pollution and eroding the foundations of the city, which suffers from regular flooding.
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