Jeff Bezos is getting married in Venice, it will make the place even crazier and there will be protests
I'm sure the Bezos and the city authorities of Venice will move the wedding somewhere else to satisfy the protesters.
Here's how The Guardian covered it the other day with a little more depth than Forbes -
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/14/venice-worn-out-jeff-bezos-wedding-overtourism
Just did a search on booking.com for June 24-27 and it produced over 1100 results
Had 670 results for June 23 to June 30
Anyone checked to see if that time period requires the ' visitor pass'?
I suspect that anyone who is not on the Bezos guest list will have trouble finding him, much less be greatly inconvenienced by this.
Be interesting to see how it turns out and whether I will want seasoning sauce to eat my words.
Thank you for The Guardian article. Surprised the tourism councillor believes a wedding to be "an event of international importance". Amazing what greed forces people to say.
I am so happy I stumbled upon this, (not the wedding, this forum) Watching Rick Steves when I was a bit younger then before, during and after my children were born, raised,moved out and married is what made me want to travel so much and find those hole in the wall, back street places. Anyway, yes I too am a bit tired of hearing about it but I'm not Venetian so I sympathize cos I am born and raised in the bay area so we had our issues also. My question is, what is the difference between this wedding spectacle and George Clooney wedding? Was it a respect thing? Anyone know? Thank you
The above question on George Clooney vs Jeff Bezos and the difference is slightly related to overtourism. George Clooney is viewed in a more positive way than Jeff Bezos. One being involved in good things and the other more or less so rich we all hate him for that even though we buy Amazon. Aside from love or hate, the effect on Venice is similar. A big celebration, perhaps more people in the city. So while our view on each man is different the effects are the same and we discount one effect and complain about the other.
I don't remember - did George Clooney park his 400 plus foot yacht in Venice's lagoon? IMO, it comes down to having respect for Venice and Venitians.
While I don't doubt the potential for protests does exist, you always have to be careful
of the source of the reporting, and whether this is really a big deal or an attempt to get
eyeballs and pump advertising revenue.
Venice is a city used to having celebrities and such. When I was there a couple of years
ago, it was during the Venice Film Festival and many celebrities were supposedly there.
But the festival was on Lido and if you weren't on Lido, you would never know anything
out of the ordinary was going on.
So if you're going to be there, enjoy, it won't be much different.
Bezos arrived on Wednesday.
Any 1st hand account of how things are, now that he is there?
they have been forced to move it to the Arsenale
Those seeking some perspective on Venice might want to view the compelling doc 'The Venice Syndrome'. A good follow-up would be the very recent CNN show wherein Erica Hill hosts an episode titled 'Saving Venice'.
I am done. the tides
I think the threat of inflatable crocodiles was too much for Mr Bezos and Mrs Bezos-to-be.