The historic Tuscan city is the latest popular destination to introduce measures to tackle out-of-control tourism that locals say is driving them out.
The historic Italian city of Florence is taking steps to cut overtourism, introducing measures including a ban on key boxes used by short-term rental landlords and tour guide loudspeakers, amid complaints that a surge in visitors has become unsustainable. With stunning Renaissance art and architecture, Florence, in Tuscany, has long been popular with travelers.
“The city is no longer able to support, without weakening its heritage value and seeing its overall livability compromised, such a massive presence of activities and means for exclusive tourist use concentrated in just five square kilometers ,” the city council said in the statement. Florence endured numerous recent incidents of tourists behaving badly. This summer a female tourist was filmed mimicking a sex act on the statue of Bacchus.
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