Re:Venice combats overtourism by tracking visitors
by briga on Monday January 18, 2021 @09:45AM
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If the amount of guided tour groups is any indication, tourists do love being treated like cattle. In fact, they pay a lot of money for the privilege. Anyway Venice isn't really a city any more so much as it is an amusement park for wealthy tourists, so it's not too surprising that they're running their city like a business.
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Re:Venice combats overtourism by tracking visitors
by SOLAR_FIELDS on Monday January 18, 2021 @10:50AM
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I went in 2018 and spoke with some of the employees working there. It’s very true. Almost no one lives in the city proper anymore; everyone commutes from outside.
On a related note if you decide to go: the city proper is very much a tourist trap. The food is not good and everything is overpriced. If you decide to go I wouldn’t spend more than a day inside the city itself. I had a much better experience taking the water taxi to the surrounding islands. The food is better, people are nicer, it’s way less crowded and the sights are just as good.
Re:Venice combats overtourism by tracking visitors
by AleZ88 on Monday January 18, 2021 @12:11PM
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Now around 50,000 people live in Venice. It not so empty.
In Rome, Florence it is the same a lot of people have moved in the suburbs. Mestre, the city near Venice, has 88,552 resident.
I lived in Venice for about 30 years.