As Freemer’s Forecast in Julythe Italian city of Venice, carrying tourists, has officially announced that it will not only continue to be new admission fees for one-day tours, but will also be twice the number of days charged, and in some cases, twice the cost.
From April 2024 to July 29 days, the city requires a Venetian visit fee of 5 ($5.35) per visitor to enter the city between 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. between all visitors who do not have hotel reservations. Officials announced that a total of about 2.4 million euros ($2.6 million) were collected, and about 1,000 tourists were charged every day, with a valid charge.
So in 2025, they will do this again, with only more frequent frequencies. Visitor tax will increase the implementation period from 29 days to 54 days from Friday to Sunday and holidays from April 27 to July 27, 2025.
They also added a new wrinkle: If visitors in Venice do not arrange for admission to be paid at least 4 days in advance, the fee will double from €5 ($5.35) per visitor to a last minute of €10 ($10.70).
If you plan to explore Venice on the day of 2025, you must now check if your visit is consistent with the fee calendar and if you are on a group or guided tour, you must also check if your tour organizer is handling the fee for you.
Venice visit fees can be paid in advance on the city’s official website: cda.veneziaunica.it/en/access-fee. At the time of publication, there are no dates available for reservation in 2025.
The program’s critics (many of Venice’s 50,000 residents have pointed out that the cost is not overcrowded in 2024.
“The data provided by the Control Room shows that during the implementation fee period, our tourism entries were about 7,000 more than in previous years,” Giovanni Andrea Martini saysa member of the local government. “This shows that access fees are not a system that can manage traffic at all.”
period Summer protestsResidents complained that tickets “will not improve the lives of Venetians” and that “visitors and residents are under increasing control.”
Martini and other fees have already drawn up plans Restricted vacation rentals in Venice As a better way to return housing stock to permanent residents and curb tourism. But so far These suggestions No progress.