Venice considers doubling entrance fees as tourism rises despite new city entrance fees

Venice, Italy, the "water city" that is suffering from overtourism, is reportedly considering doubling the city entrance fee it charges tourists.
The city of Venice decided that the temporary entrance fee it introduced to the city was not having as much of an effect on deterring tourists as expected.
In 2011, the city began to impose a kind of tourist tax, a city entrance fee. There has been criticism locally that the city entrance fee is not effective in curbing excessive tourism. In fact, for the first 11 days after the city entrance fee was introduced,
The average number of tourists visiting Venice was 75,000, an increase of about 10,000 from the number of tourists who visited Venice during the same period last year.
The city of Venice is considering raising the city entrance fee, currently 5 euros per person, to 10 euros.
The plan is under consideration. Citizens are calling for more practical measures, such as restrictions on short-term accommodation businesses, to replace the ineffective city entrance fee.
Michele Tuin, Venice's city councillor in charge of the budget, said: "We will raise the entrance fee to the city to 10 euros.
"If we raise the tax rate, we will see a more definite effect of curbing the spread of the virus," he said. According to the Associated Press, the city of Venice will impose city entrance fees for 29 days from April, collecting about 2.2 million euros.
Venice, Italy's leading tourist destination, has been suffering from overtourism even before the COVID-19 virus outbreak. The throngs of tourists have led UNESCO to declare Venice a "free zone."
The city was so damaged that it was designated a "World Heritage Site in Danger." Noise, privacy violations, pollution, and other problems have destroyed the urban environment, and Venice's population, which was 130,000 in 1961, is now around 50,000.
It's down more than 60%.