Venice Plans to Start Weeding Out Cheap Tourists
If you want to go to Venice for the day, you’ll soon have to start paying.
Tourists in Venice in June.
Photographer: Andrea Merola/BloombergOn a recent afternoon in Venice, a visiting family spread a tablecloth over the top of an historic well to lunch on homemade food amid the Renaissance-era ambience. It was a thrifty alternative to spending money at local eateries, but authorities were having none of it.
“They have been severely fined,” said Simone Venturini, a Venice city councilor, who’s leading an initiative to shift the city’s tourism industry to quality over quantity.