Venice tax

That looks like a money grab because €5 isn’t going to stop daytrippers like those on cruises from visiting Venice.

The 5 euro fee will not be a deterrent, but should cover the cost of program administration.

The limited number of reservations will be what affects 'crowd control'.

I wonder if cruise lines and other day trip organizers will be able to make reservations 'in bulk' or if every individual will have to do it?

I'll be interested in how they're going to police this thing 'cause visitors have multiple ways to access the island. Random checks on the streets? I assume that a hotel reservation = reserved access and guests don't need an additional reservation?

Every visitor in Venice will need to wear a license plate on the back.

There will be ZTL cameras all over, and if your license plate number does not appear in the City's "Full Paid" list, you will be issued a fine, possibly debited to your credit card that you must register in the website to obtain the license plate.

Visitors without license plate on the back will be place under arrest for WWP (walking without permit).

Welcome to Mayor Luigi Brugnaro's Venice!

Roberto,

I thought they'd already burned the mayor at the stake? ;-)

I wonder how long it will be before a similar reservation & tax system is considered for the Cinque Terre or other crowded tourist locations?

It occurs to me that if the daily quota for Venice on any of the 30 designated days is significantly lower than the number of cruise-ship passengers, there will be a bunch of folks looking for an alternative destination. I fear for Ravenna.

It has now been announced that it will start from 25 April 2024 and will vary between 3 euro and 10 euro a day depending how busy the city is expected to be that day- https://veneziaautentica.com/venice-tourist-tax/?fbclid=IwAR2FhbnCqApYp5FsOfcApd_BZZx9YjY6BYKPTU9U9Y38AY0Fz-WWCQ9aIK4

I originally thought Roberto had too much turkey and was joking......😱😱😱

It looks like the platform for booking day-tripper tickets is up and running. I haven't done a dummy booking all the way through because it looks like they're nominative.

I got to the platform from this WIR article:
https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/italy-venice-new-tourist-entry-fee.html

And this is the platform with lots of info plus link for making bookings:
https://cda.veneziaunica.it/en/access-fee

Lucky me! I leave Venice the day before the tax days in April.
Actually, I never stay fewer than 4 nights in Venice (and pay a nightly tax). This magical place is so different early morning, noon, afternoon, evening, night and midnight. Daytrippers are missing so much, and probably don't know it. Friends who live and work there (after all the years I've been to Venice I have friends there), say that daytrippers, especially cruiseship passengers, contribute almost nothing to the local economy but their environmental impact is very damaging. 5 euro isn't much but if it helps preserve La Serenissima, it's very little to ask.

Most places in the world that are being "loved to death" are going to be instituting such fees, in a way it's only fair. Daytrippers don't always stay to eat and obviously don't stay in hotels, so they are using facilities and generating waste and not contributing all that much. I imagine cruise lines will just roll this fee into their fares.