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Venice to introduce new entry fee for tourists

The popular Italian city of Venice will soon introduce an entry fee for visitors who wish to enter the city. Here are the details…

The popular Italian city of Venice will soon introduce an entry fee for visitors who wish to enter the city. Photo: canva

Venice’s new entry fee

Visitors planning a trip to the romantic city of Venice will need to be aware of a soon-to-be imposed entry fee.

According to Schengenvisa.info, the Mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro, has confirmed that Venice’s authorities have decided to impose a €5 (R100) fee for foreign visitors planning to enter the city.

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As per reports, these plans to introduce restrictions have been on the cards since 2019, as part of efforts to reduce the massive amount of tourists that visit Venice every year.

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The good news, however, is that this new fee will only be implemented as an experiment and only on certain days.

The city’s authorities will choose the days which they predict to be busiest, such as holiday weekends and peak Carnival periods.

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Who has to pay?

Only daytrippers will be subject to the entry fee. Photo: canva

As per the rules around the fee, only daytrippers aged 14 and above who wish to enter the city will be subject to the €5 fee.

Locals, commuters and those with second homes in the city who have paid local property tax, visitors who are staying overnight in the municipality and those participating in sports events, will all be excluded from the entry fee.

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The fee will be introduced in spring 2024 (March 2024).

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Sundeeka Mungroo is a content writer, foodie and all-round adventure-seeker. She's a graduate of the University of South Africa with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature, and has worked as a copywriter and editor in the digital marketing industry. Sundeeka currently writes for I Love South Africa and The South African. She lives in the beautiful Mother City and loves exploring all that South Africa has to offer.

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