Italy|According to the city authorities, the restrictions aim to address the disadvantages of excessive tourism in Venice.
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Venice limits the size of tourist groups to 25 people and prohibits the use of loud speakers.
The restrictions aim to address the disadvantages of excessive tourism in Venice.
Unesco warned a year ago that mass tourism threatens to cause irreversible changes in Venice.
Venice has decided to limit the size of tourist groups arriving in the Italian city to a maximum of 25 people. At the same time, it has announced that it will also ban tourists from using loud speakers.
This is reported by, among others, the British Broadcasting Company BBC.
According to the city authorities, the restrictions aim to address the disadvantages of excessive tourism in Venice.
Year then the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Unesco statedthat mass tourism and climate change threaten to cause irreversible changes in Venice.
Unesco accused the Italian authorities of a “lack of strategic vision” because they have not been able to solve the problems caused by tourism.
Since then, Italy seems to have made a move in the matter, at least as far as Venice is concerned. The new restrictions are a continuation of the experiment that Venice started in the spring, where it requires day tourists arriving in the city to pay an entrance fee of five euros.
“It’s not an expense, but a way to make people understand that we need change and want to reduce the number of visits to the city”, reasoned the mayor of the city Luigi Brugnaro an experiment.
Venice is not only one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites, but also one of Italy’s most popular day trip destinations.
Venice currently does not constitute a special exception in Europe. Also in several other European tourist destinations efforts have been made to tackle the negative effects of tourism.
In Spain, for example, Seville announced at the beginning of the year that it was planning to make the Plaza de España square an entrance fee.
Amsterdam, on the other hand, campaigned last year especially to reduce tourism from British men. France, on the other hand, told about a plan to spread the tourists heading to the country more evenly across the country and encourage them to visit during the off-season.
Tourism is a double-edged sword for many cities. On the one hand, it brings money to the cities and supports local businesses. On the other hand, it also brings with it various mild phenomena, such as littering, vandalism, noise pollution and public intoxication.
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