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On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 11:35 PM Jochen Fromm <jofr at cas-group.net> wrote:

> Oh, nice. The Guardian has an article about Venice too
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> https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/06/venice-losing-fight-with-tourism-and-flooding
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> -Jochen
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net>
> Date: 1/6/19 23:08 (GMT+01:00)
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
>
> Cc: Wedtech <wedtech at redfish.com>, John DiRuggiero <jdiru at me.com>, Fabio
> Carrera <carrera.fabio at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Venice to charge day-trippers for access to city
> center | News | santafenewmexican.com
>
> And more importantly, Fabio's H3 palace in Giudecca
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> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xXk6EKWIBrZ-thmvvL5ACBpKbpVQssexJTcq4zKWevw/edit
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> and the Birraria La Corte
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> http://birrarialacorte.it/
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> 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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