Venice combats overtourism by tracking visitors

Re:Venice combats overtourism by tracking visitors by SOLAR_FIELDS on Monday January 18, 2021 @10:50AM (#25822905)

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.

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Re:Venice combats overtourism by tracking visitors by AleZ88 on Monday January 18, 2021 @12:11PM (#25823894)

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.

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