Venice: Loving It & Why??!!

[TLCOhio]

From the London/UK Telegraph this weekend, they had this headline: “Venice is being destroyed by tourism – a £100 entry fee might be the only solution" with this sub-headline:  "The city, and many other destinations, are struggling with soaring numbers of visitors, and piffling charges won’t solve the crisis.”

 

Here are some of the highlights in this opinion column by one of this major newspaper's top editors, Nick Trend: “As the populations of the world have become richer and more mobile, the balance is tipping. The numbers who want to visit the most beautiful and famous cities, landscapes and sights are starting to outweigh those places’ capacity to cope. We are slowly but surely destroying the destinations we love, and a few of the worst affected have started to react – either through the spontaneous protests from local residents that we have seen in places such as Mallorca and Barcelona, or through more bureaucratic attempts to stem the tide.”

 

Additionally, he noted: "Let’s be honest. Piffling charges like this will do nothing to deter significant numbers of visitors. They are simply a way of skimming off some compensatory revenue instead.  The £8 entry fee introduced for visitors to Bali last February is supposed to fund projects that benefit the local community. In Venice, however, it hasn’t even done that. The municipality has conceded that the revenue earned from the charge was roughly the same as the administrative cost of collecting it."

 

Interesting comments and perspective.  Plus, serious questions for Venice and other popular tourist locations  Agree or disagree?  

 

Full story at:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/venice-overtourism-entry-fee/

 

THANKS!  Enjoy!  Terry in Ohio   

 

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