[FRIAM] Venice to charge day-trippers for access to city center | News | santafenewmexican.com
Owen Densmore
owen at backspaces.net
Sun Jan 6 17:08:11 EST 2019
And more importantly, Fabio's H3 palace in Giudecca
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xXk6EKWIBrZ-thmvvL5ACBpKbpVQssexJTcq4zKWevw/edit
and the Birraria La Corte
http://birrarialacorte.it/
near his shared office!
-- Owen
On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 1:40 PM Jochen Fromm <jofr at cas-group.net> wrote:
> 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/Gondola
> https://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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