Venice, Italy – Venice is Day controller For the famous city of the Canal, a tax at arrivals per second year as of Friday, a measure destined to combat the type of superpase that puts at risk the Cultural Heritage status of UNESCO of the city.
A UNESCO body decided not to put Venice in his Cultural Heritage Sites List considered in danger after the tax was announced. But opponents of the tripter rate of the day say he has done nothing to discourage tourists to visit Venecia even on high traffic days.
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The rate charged to visitors who are not during the night in Venice enters their historic center during the second year of the day trip tax. Visitors who download a QR code at least three days in advance will pay 5 euros ($ 5.69), the same amount charged last year throughout the pilot program. But those who make last minute plans pay twice. The QR code requires 8:30 am to 4 pm and is checked at the entrance points to the city, including the Santa Lucía train station, the Piazzale Roma bus deposit and the Tronchetto parking lot.
The number of days of this year to Venice visitors that day Venice will be charged a rate to enter the historic center. They include mainly weekends and holidays from April 18 to July 27. That is more than 29 of last year. The new calendar covers whole weeks during the key holidays and extends the weekend period to include Fridays.
That is the amount that Venice received during a 2024 pilot program for the tax. The high budget official of the city, Michele Zuin, said last year that the operating costs of the new system extended to 2.7 million euros, exceeding the total rates collected. This year, Zuin projects a surplus of approximately 1 million euros to 1.5 million euros, which will be used to compensate for the cost of garbage collection and other services for residents.
The number of buyers of one day who paid the tax in 2024. The officials said that 12,744 buyers during the day paid to enter the city on Friday: 7,173 at the highest rate of 10 euros. They were among the 77,000 that have been recorded so far to enter the city this year. Another 117,000 have been registered for exemptions, which apply to any person born in Venice, those who pay property taxes in the city, study or work in the historic center, or live in the largest region of Veneto, among others.
The average number of daily visitors in the first 11 days of 2024 that Venice charged to the buyers during the day. That is around 10,000 people more than the number of tourists registered in each of the three important vacations during the previous year. The city council member, Giovanni Andrea Martini, opponent of the measure, said the figures show that the project has not deteriorate visitors.
The number of official residents in the Venice Historic Center composed of more than 100 islands connected by catwalks and crossed by their famous channels. The population reached its maximum point in 174,000 in 1951, when Venice was the home of the Prosperas Industries. The number was reduced during the postwar economic boom in Italy when residents moved to the most modern housing continent, including the inner plumbing that was missing in Venice. It has been drastically reduced during the last decades as the local industry lost traction, families sought continental comforts and housing prices increased. Activists also blame the “monoculture” of tourism, which they say has emptied the city of basic services such as daily goods and medical care.
The number of beds for tourists in the Historic Center of Venice, including 12,627 in the less regulated short -term rental market, according to April data of the Leisure Housing Activist Group. The number of tourist beds exceeded the number of permanent residents in 2023, according to the leisure monitor. Any person who stays in a hotel within the boundaries of the city, even in the continental districts of Mestre and Marghera, pays a accommodation tax and, therefore, is exempt from the tripter tax of the day.
According to city officials, the number of annual arrivals of hikers and guests during the night confirmed by the data of cell phones tracked from an intelligent control room since 2020.
