VENICE – Entrance fee to Venice, second day: over 106 thousand registered people and 22 thousand paying tourists. There are 106,800 people registered today, the second day for the entrance ticket on the online platform of the Municipality of Venice.
Of these, 22,000 are daily tourists who have paid 5 euro vouchers for access to the historic center, 52,000 are exempt holidaymakers because they will be staying in accommodation facilities and 32,800 are stable exemptions requested by workers and students. At 12.30 there were 11,500 checks on possession of the payment or exemption QR-Code.
CONTRIBUTION EFFECTS
Venice for the first time with an entrance ticket but still “invaded” by 113 thousand visitors. An only apparent paradox was seen yesterday in the lagoon city, full of holidaymakers despite the fact that a tax of 5 euros was applied for daily tourists. The explanation is given by the municipal budget councilor, Michele Zuin, who with the mayor Brugnaro and the tourism councilor Venturini followed the experimentation from the front row. «Yesterday it went very well – comments Zuin – there were no particular problems, we had 15 thousand people who had booked even though they knew they had to pay the contribution. And to those who say that the disincentive effect did not exist, I simply reply: the experimentation of these first 29 days of 2024 serves us precisely to work on what should be the maximum threshold of tourists present in the city, without blowing up the public services, transport, bathrooms”. It is clear, observes Zuin, that it cannot be 5 euros or less that convince tourists to stay away from Venice. «By cross-referencing all the data on this year’s flows, those of the cell phones of the people who arrived in the city in these days – he continues – in 2025 we will be able to set a maximum threshold of sustainable presences. Beyond that threshold, those who still want to come to Venice on hot days will have to pay a higher contribution, probably the maximum required by law – which limits it to the limits of the tourist tax ed. – that is 10 euros. Here, in that case, a group of more people will perhaps be discouraged from arriving in the city anyway. It was unthinkable that the disincentive effect would start immediately, with the 5 euros.” A maximum threshold, not a ban, Zuin specifies, “because we don’t want to, and we couldn’t, put a limited number on arrivals”
