Venice prepares to charge tourists for day trips, require booking

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VENICE: From a control room inside the police headquarters in Venice, Big Brother is watching you. To combat tourist overcrowding, officials are tracking every person who sets foot in the lagoon city. Using 468 CCTV cameras, optical sensors and a mobile phone-tracing system, they can tell residen

To combat tourist overcrowding, officials are tracking every person who sets foot in the lagoon city.

Airport-like turnstiles are being tested to control the flow of people and, should the numbers become overwhelming, stop new visitors from getting in. The scheme, first mooted in 2019, was postponed because of COVID-19. During last year's lockdown, Venetians marvelled at their city's narrow alleys for once without throngs of tourists, the lagoon waters made pristine by the absence of motorboats.

"We don't want to leave anyone behind or stop people from coming to Venice. We want people to book in advance, tell us where they want to go, what they want to visit, in order to provide a better quality of service." "There'll be conditions attached to obtain priority bookings and discounts," he said."You can't come in your swimming suit. You can't jump from a bridge or get drunk. Whoever comes must respect the city."

 

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