15 years.
as long As have the authorities in the popular tourist town of Venice tried to get a introduced a fee to get endagsturister to pay an extra fee to visit the Italian city, and now it’s finally succeed.
It writes the city’s mayor, Luigi Bruganaro, on Twitter, according to The Independent.
Vacationers, staying at a hotel in the city must now pay an additional tax of between 1-5 euro (7,50-37,50 euros) pr. day to stay in the city, but the new fee will mean that also endagsturister in the future must pay an extra tax to go sightseeing in the kanalbyen.
It is unknown what the price of the new ‘entrance’ should be, but the more the media writes, that the fee will sounds on up to ten euros.
According to the mayor of the town, the new tax ’to protect those who live, study and work in Venice’.
the Tax will give us a better opportunity to manage the city, keep it clean and to offer innovative services to our guests – as well as give the residents a more suitable life, saith the Luigi Bruganaro according to the british media.
It is estimated that nearly 25 million tourists travel to Venice every year, which earlier this year led the authorities in the city to tighten the rules in order to keep track of the many visitors.
It is estimated further that the ‘only’ one in five of the tourist staying in the city and therefore the city can thus look forward to getting a lot of money out of the new tourist tax, which must be used to maintain buildings and monuments, as well as to keep the city clean.
The Italian government is expected that the fee will go up to 50 million euros per year.
the Extra Leaf has been previously described how the gondola-the city of just 60,000 inhabitants have struggled with the excessive tourism that gets people to move away from the city.
In the summer the authorities introduced among other things a new vagtkorps to keep an eye on that the tourists follow the rules, which among other things implies that tourists are not allowed to go around in the midriff, bathe in the canals or feed the pigeons.
Read more about the history here.
