Prices will almost certainly be hiked next year
ROME - Venice's experimental payment system for tourists only had a limited impact on reducing crowds in the lagoon city, meaning prices will almost certainly be hiked next year, a politician who led the project said on Friday.
The pilot scheme, which has been watched closely by other European tourist hotspots, covered just 29 days and will end on Sunday, opening the way for a period of consultation to decide how to proceed with the project in future. "On some weekends there were less people than the same time last year ... but no one expected that all the day trippers would miraculously disappear," he told Reuters, speaking by telephone from Venice.
The city council is looking to discourage daytrippers, especially during weekends and holidays when visitors can top 100,000 - double the number of local residents. People with hotel reservations have not had to pay the levy."It has been a total failure. The city is still packed with tourists," said opposition councillor Giovanni Andrea Martini, adding that the number of people paying the charge had fallen as word spread that the threatened fines were not materialising.
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