{"id":8975,"date":"2022-04-21T13:24:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T03:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtatravel.com.au\/?p=8975"},"modified":"2022-04-29T15:47:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T05:47:27","slug":"venice-to-introduce-booking-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtatravel.com.au\/venice-to-introduce-booking-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Venice to introduce booking system"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heading to Venice? Make sure you book in advance to access the city’s historic centre, as authorities have announced a new scheme to protect the destination from mass tourism.<\/span><\/p>\n

After some 400,000 tourists thronged the city during the Easter break, Venice mayor Luigi Brugnaro announced the launch of the new scheme that will limit the number of visitors ahead of the summer season.<\/p>\n

Brugnaro described the shift as \u201cthe right way forward\u201d to manage the city\u2019s tourism, Italian news agency ANSA reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The mayor added Venice would be \u201cthe first in the world\u201d to conduct \u201cthis difficult experiment.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to the booking system, day-trippers will have to pay an entry fee of up to 10 euros to access the city centre from 2023 onwards.<\/p>\n

Tourists planning on spending the night in Venice will need a prior reservation to enter the canal city.<\/p>\n

Municipal authorities have long struggled with balancing Venice\u2019s bustling tourism industry with the fragile nature of the city and its lagoon environment.<\/p>\n

The new scheme will aim to account for the number of people in the city centre at all times.<\/p>\n

Brugnaro said the scheme will tackle overcrowding and \u201chit and run\u201d tourism.<\/p>\n

Last year the officials also announced that\u00a0travellers to Venice will soon be tracked\u00a0using 468 CCTV cameras, optical sensors and a mobile phone-tracing system.<\/p>\n

This will allow officials to be able to tell residents from visitors, Italians from foreigners, where people are coming from, where they are heading and how fast they are moving.<\/p>\n

Every 15 minutes, authorities get a snapshot of how crowded the city is \u2013 alongside how many gondolas are sliding on the Canal Grande, whether boats are speeding and if the waters rise to dangerous levels.<\/p>\n

This process is said to combat overcrowding in the city.<\/p>\n

Over 100,000 people stayed overnight in Venice, a city of 400,000, on Good Friday. The figure does not include day-trippers or people who booked hotels in nearby towns.<\/p>\n

Source: AAP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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