[FRIAM] Venice to charge day-trippers for access to city center | News | santafenewmexican.com

[Jochen Fromm]

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. 
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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondolahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spritz_Veneziano
-Jochen

-------- Original message --------From: Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net> Date: 1/6/19  18:33  (GMT+01:00) To: Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>, Fabio Carrera <carrera.fabio at gmail.com>, John DiRuggiero <jdiru at me.com>, Wedtech <wedtech at redfish.com> Subject: [FRIAM] Venice to charge day-trippers for access to city center | News | santafenewmexican.com 
The SF New Mexican has this interesting article on how Venice is trying to handle their overwhelming tourism.
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/venice-to-charge-day-trippers-for-access-to-city-center/article_60b81701-d063-585e-b3e9-8c2cd4d89663.html
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.
From the article: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.But that means the other four-fifths are day trippers? Whoa!
Fabio: any others? And is focusing on day trippers (with no overnight stay) helpful?
   -- Owen

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