Venice Eyes 30-Euro Tourist Fee and Longer Season

Narrative A

Venice already proved the entry fee is ineffective: 75,000 day visitors a day during the trial, about 10,000 more than the same days the year before. Doubling or tripling the charge just pushes people to book beds instead, adding more tourist rentals and squeezing residents further. Call it what it is — a surveillance-backed cash grab aimed at foreigners, not a serious plan to save the city.