I saw this article a few days ago regarding Venice limiting tour group sizes to 25 people beginning June 1st. Looking back I did not see that it had been posted yet. I read it on NPR but it has been on the other news sources as well.
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/01/1222393894/venice-tour-groups-loudspeakers
for context there was
this one from the 31st of December - https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/italy/article-re-venice-tour-group-size
and there was also this quite comprehensive one from January 1st - https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/general-europe/venice-to-limit-size-of-tour-groups-other-restrictions
Venice has to limit tour groups.
Nigel,
Thank you for the update. I only looked in the Italy forums and being as the NPR post I had seen was dated January 1st I did not go very far into the posts for December 31st and older.
Wow, I wonder how that will impact the many RS tours that include Venice, as well as other tour companies, all of whom have filled tours June-Dec 2024??
I would just assume that anything larger would be broken up between 2 groups. I like to be able to be close to the guide, so less people in a group would be a more personal experience.
In my personal experience, Venetians who don't rely on the tourist trade directly are increasingly salty about how tourists negatively impact their lives. I would imagine this would be a very popular law.
Even the idea of groups of 25 walking through Venice’s tight alleyways together is upsetting.
