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☆ Venice's plan to charge tourists descended into chaos, showing how much of a headache overtourism has become
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-29 | by ( Alexandra Bacon | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The move sparked protests, highlighting the problems city officials face when tackling overtourism. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . When cities are overrun with tourists, officials are often tasked with finding ways to make them more liveable for residents. On peak days, tourists visiting Venice for the day need to buy a ticket online or at booths to enter the city. Other tourist hot spots have implemented caps on the number of daily visitors.

Persons: —, aren't, Simone Venturini, Venturini, Luca Bruno, Manuel Silvestri, it's Organizations: Service, Guardian, Business, AP, Reuters, Mount Fuji, BBC, US National Parks Locations: Venice, Italian, Veniceland, Amsterdam, Japan, Fujikawaguchiko, Austria, Athens

☆ Venice to experiment with entry fee, visitor cap from April 2024
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Federico Maccioni | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] Tourists walk during a new heatwave as temperatures are expected to reach 40 degrees Celsius in some cities, in Venice, Italy August 22, 2023. REUTERS/Manuel Silvestri/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsMILAN, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Venice will start testing a daily admission fee and cap on visitor access to its famous canals from next April, in what the Italian city's mayor hailed as the world's first such scheme. "It is the first time in the world that you do something like this, you make a city bookable," Mayor Luigi Brugnaro said. Potential sanctions will range from 50 to 310 euros will be imposed on those failing to comply with the measure. The trial is estimated to cost 3 million euros against proceeds for about 700,000 euros.

Persons: Manuel Silvestri, Luigi Brugnaro, Michele Zuin, Federico Maccioni, Keith Weir Organizations: REUTERS, Visitors, Thomson Locations: Venice, Italy, Italian, Murano

☆ At least 21 dead after Italian bus carrying tourists falls from Venice overpass
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-03 | by ( Manuel Silvestri | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

VENICE, Italy, Oct 3 (Reuters) - At least 21 people died on Tuesday and 18 were injured after a bus carrying tourists to a campground crashed off an overpass near Venice in northern Italy and caught fire, city officials said. Venice city councillor Renato Boraso said one line of enquiry was that the driver, a 40-year-old Italian who was among those killed, had been taken ill before the crash. He said the coach had been carrying 40 passengers, of whom 21 had died and 18 were injured. Venice's city hall said the injured people had been taken to nearby hospitals, with four in a serious condition. The bus was also carrying passengers from France and Croatia, Italian news agency ANSA reported.

Persons: Renato Boraso, Boraso, Luigi Brugnaro, Manuel Silvestri, Michele Di Bari, ANSA, Di Bari, Giorgia Meloni, Emilio Parodi, Gavin Jones, Keith Weir, Alvise, Crispian Balmer, Lisa Shumaker, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: Sky Italia, Rescue, REUTERS, Thomson Locations: VENICE, Italy, Venice, Mestre, Venice's, France, Croatia, Verona

[1/2] A bartender pours a drink at a Campari inauguration of a new brand house for Aperol, its best-selling beverage, in Venice. Shares in Campari fell by more than 5% in Milan after the departure of Kunze-Concewitz, who is 56, was announced. Under Kunze-Concewitz, Campari roughly tripled its net sales and profitability, investing around 3 billion euros ($3.2 billion) on acquisitions. Sales of Aperol have increased by 12 times since 2007 and it has become the group's largest brand. Kunze-Concewitz, an Austrian citizen who was born in Istanbul, will remain as a non-executive director at Campari.

Persons: Manuel Silvestri, Bob Kunze, Matteo Fantacchiotti, Kunze Concewitz, Fantacchiotti, Italy's, Cristina Carlevaro, Elisa Anzolin, Keith Weir, Jason Neely, Alexander Smith Organizations: REUTERS, Asia Pacific, Nestle, Diageo, Carlsberg, Jefferies, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Aperol, Venice . Italy, Italian, Campari, Milan, Asia, Austrian, Istanbul

☆ Venice to start charging visitors entry fee next year
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] People ride on a gondola as the municipality prepares to charge tourists up to 10 Euro for entry into the lagoon city, in order to cut down the number of visitors, in Venice, Italy, September 5, 2021. The aim was to find "a new balance between the rights of those who live, study or work in Venice and those who visit the city," Venice tourism councillor Simone Venturini said. Visitors have meanwhile poured back into Venice, with outsiders often vastly outnumbering the roughly 50,000 residents of the city centre, overwhelming its narrow alleys. Overtourism has long been a problem for the fragile lagoon city. ($1 = 0.9322 euros)Writing by Keith Weir, editing by Alvise Armellini; Editing by Hugh LawsonOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Manuel Silvestri, Simone Venturini, Keith Weir, Alvise Armellini, Hugh Lawson Organizations: REUTERS, UNESCO, Thomson Locations: Venice, Italy, VENICE, Overtourism

☆ UNESCO recommends adding Venice to list of world heritage sites in danger
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] Gondoliers row their gondolas through the Venice Canal as the city prepares for the Redentore Festival celebrations in Venice, Italy, July 15, 2023. REUTERS/Manuel Silvestri/File PhotoJuly 31 (Reuters) - UNESCO experts have recommended that Venice and its lagoon be added to its list of World Heritage in Danger as Italy is not doing enough to protect the city from the impact of climate change and mass tourism. UNESCO World Heritage Centre experts regularly review the state of the UN cultural agency's 1,157 World Heritage sites, and at a meeting in Riyadh in September, a committee of 21 UNESCO member states will review more than 200 sites and decide which to add to the danger list. Other sites recommended to be put on the danger list this year are the cities of Kyiv and Lviv in Ukraine. A spokesperson for the Venice municipality told Reuters the city "will carefully read the proposed decision published today by the Center for UNESCO's World Heritage Committee and will discuss it with the government".

Persons: Manuel Silvestri, Geert De Clercq, Augustin Turpin, Federica Urso, Leslie Adler Organizations: REUTERS, UNESCO, Heritage Centre, UN, Reuters, Center, World Heritage, Thomson Locations: Venice, Italy, Danger, Riyadh, Odessa, Ukraine, Timbuktu, Mali, Syria, Iraq, Libya, Kyiv, Lviv, Paris, Rome

☆ Strong pricing helps to drive sales growth for Campari
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/3] General view at a Campari inauguration of a new brand house for Aperol, its best-selling beverage, in Venice Italy, August 30, 2021. REUTERS/Manuel SilvestriMILAN, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Italian spirits group Campari (CPRI.MI) reported on Tuesday a 9.6% increase in fourth quarter like-for-like sales, thanks to strong pricing and despite supply constraints. The maker of Aperol and Campari bitters said net sales reached 2.7 billion euros ($2.9 billion) in 2022 as a whole, up organically 16.4% compared with the previous year. Adjusted operating profit in the last quarter was up 7.6% on a like-for-like basis, with input cost inflation almost fully offset by positive pricing initiatives. Campari is proposing a full year dividend of 0.06 euros per share, unchanged compared with the previous year.

☆ Venice kept dry as dam system wards off exceptional high tide
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/4] A view of St. Mark's Square during exceptional high tide as the flood barriers known as Mose are raised, in Venice, Italy, November 22, 2022. REUTERS/Manuel SilvestriVENICE, Italy, Nov 22 (Reuters) - A dam system built to protect Venice and its famous Piazza San Marco from flooding withstood the challenge of an exceptionally high tide on Tuesday as heavy rains swept across Italy. However, the Mose, a system of 78 flood gates rising from the Venetian lagoon floor, was activated in advance overnight, shielding the city from the high waters seen at sea. "If the Mose barriers had not been there, Venice would have been catastrophically under water," Italy's Transport Minister Matteo Salvini said. High tides are expected to last well into Wednesday and Thursday, with a tide of up to 140 cm forecast for both days.

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