The polls in the Italian city are framed as an existential dilemma over whether to change course in the face of overtourism and the unstoppable rise in sea levels
  • ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    3 days ago

    I hope they can reinvent themselves, but what industry does Venice even have outside petrochemical refineries on the mainland?

    • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      24·
      3 days ago

      I don’t think it will ever completely remove tourism, but the current approach is going to ruin the tourist industry too.
      There’s nothing left in the old city any more, it’s all tourism. And who’s going to come to visit a bunch of overpriced souvenir shops on an island?

      • psx_crab@lemmy.zipEnglish
        11·
        3 days ago

        Do note that the city is sinking due to how and where they build the whole city, and tourism is accelerating the demise of it. So overtourism will kill the city one way or another.

  • Admetus@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    9·
    3 days ago

    It needs restricted flows and entry tax which contributes to say…reducing the burden on existing tourism businesses when they take a hit from low sales. Been there before, it’s way too busy and lacks the romance of old.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Those fucking cruise ships filling the squares with tourists and canals with tourist shit, then they pay to ride in a gondola through the shit. RFK dream vacation.

    • Windex007@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      I imagine a large group of very wealthy people would be very in favour of a steep entry tax.

      • Admetus@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        That’s more a tax management issue, say for example the congestion charge in London brings in millions of revenue and ideally it should be driven towards green energy we’d hope.

        • Windex007@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          No idea how it works in London… but my concern is that using fees and taxes to reduce things sometimes practically turn into “This thing is now only for rich people”.

          I knew a guy who was a giant piece of shit and would park his Lamborghini anywhere and just eat the parking tickets. He’d get like $400 a day and he just didn’t care because he had the money. The rules are just for poor people if the penalty is just a fine.

          My concern is that with a simple taxation approach, Venice becomes where bezos jets to whenever he wants, and I literally can no longer go. He already had a leg up, this just deepens the gap.

          There are ways to address it. A lottery system. Or at the very least make the tax scale with wealth (like how some Nordic countries do speeding tickets)