<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>There are far too many tourists in Venice, and the cruise ships are monsters that destroy the city. Clearly a step in the right direction. </div><div><br></div><div>Venice itself is quite beautiful. A lot of Vivaldi concertos, Cicchetti bars, and Vaporetti stations (a Vaporetto is a kind of water bus). Venice is famous for Gondolas and "Aperol Spritz". A unique city. </div><div>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondola</div><div>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spritz_Veneziano</div><div><br></div><div>-Jochen</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Owen Densmore <owen@backspaces.net> </div><div>Date: 1/6/19 18:33 (GMT+01:00) </div><div>To: Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com>, Fabio Carrera <carrera.fabio@gmail.com>, John DiRuggiero <jdiru@me.com>, Wedtech <wedtech@redfish.com> </div><div>Subject: [FRIAM] Venice to charge day-trippers for access to city center | News | santafenewmexican.com </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The SF New Mexican has this interesting article on how Venice is trying to handle their overwhelming tourism.</div><br></div><a href="http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/venice-to-charge-day-trippers-for-access-to-city-center/article_60b81701-d063-585e-b3e9-8c2cd4d89663.html">http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/venice-to-charge-day-trippers-for-access-to-city-center/article_60b81701-d063-585e-b3e9-8c2cd4d89663.html</a><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">This is just the first of several ideas to manage tourism in Venice. Managing large tour ships already has started, for example. Managing AirBnB is another in the works.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">From the article:</div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Official estimate that as many as 30 million people visit Venice each year, with about one-fifth spending at least one night in the historic center of the city, which excludes islands in the lagoon and a mainland.</div></div></blockquote><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">But that means the other four-fifths are day trippers? Whoa!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Fabio: any others? And is focusing on day trippers (with no overnight stay) helpful?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> -- Owen</div><br></div></div>
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