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Venice's tourist tax trial earned the lagoon city €2.2 million, so why is it being branded a 'failure'? “The ticket is a failure, as demonstrated by city data,” says Giovanni Andrea Martini, an opposition city council member. The daytripper fee drew many opponents over the years it took the city to get it up and running. After years of delays, some due to Covid, visitors have been charged €5 on 29 days this year, mostly weekends and holidays. Authorities have said the levy will continue and could be doubled for 2025, bringing it up to €10. Did the tax help to combat overtourism?Over the weeken...
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Venice wants to keep charging an entrance fee for day visitors when a trial period for the charge - the world's first such scheme - ends this weekend. The city plans to take account of demand in its new pricing and double the fee from €5 ($5.4) to up to €10 when the city on Italy's Adriatic coast is particularly busy, Michele Zuin, the city councillor responsible for finances, told a local newspaper. The nearly month-long trial put more than than €2 million ($2.1 million) into the city's coffers. On some days, more than 25,000 paying guests were registered. Zuin, in a story in Il Gazzettino, s...
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Venice wants to keep charging an entrance fee for day visitors when a trial period for the charge - the world's first such scheme - ends this weekend. The city plans to take account of demand in its new pricing and double the fee from €5 ($5.4) to up to €10 when the city on Italy's Adriatic coast is particularly busy, Michele Zuin, the city councillor responsible for finances, told a local newspaper. The nearly month-long trial put more than than €2 million ($2.1 million) into the city's coffers. On some days, more than 25,000 paying guests were registered. Zuin, in a story in Il Gazzettino, s...
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Venice wants to keep charging an entrance fee for day visitors when a trial period for the charge - the world's first such scheme - ends this weekend. The city plans to take account of demand in its new pricing and double the fee from €5 ($5.4) to up to €10 when the city on Italy's Adriatic coast is particularly busy, Michele Zuin, the city councillor responsible for finances, told a local newspaper. The nearly month-long trial put more than than €2 million ($2.1 million) into the city's coffers. On some days, more than 25,000 paying guests were registered. Zuin, in a story in Il Gazzettino, s...
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American actor Willem Dafoe has been appointed the Artistic Director of the Venice Biennale theatre department for 2025 and 2026. The appointment was confirmed by the chairman of the Biennale board of directors, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco. “It is an honor to announce the appointment of Willem Dafoe as the Director of Biennale Teatro,” said Buttafuoco, adding: “I can’t wait, like everyone else, to be a spectator at the festival he will build as artistic director and – from his lectern as an absolute maestro – to watch the young men and women of the Theatre College grow in their art.” The Biennale’s...
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Thousands of Barcelona residents have taken to the streets to protest overtourism. Around 3,000 people from over 140 organisations took to the streets of the Spanish city on Saturday afternoon, spraying tourists with water and shouting "tourists go home". Hotel and restaurant entrances were symbolically closed off. They are calling for action before a summer season that experts say will set new records in the city and the wider region of Catalonia. Barcelona is Spain's most visited city receiving 12 million people a year, many of whom arrive via cruise ship. Rising visitor numbers are putting ...
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the long-awaited sequel to Tim Burton’s 1988 hit Beetlejuice, has been announced as the opening film of this year’s Venice Film Festival. The screening will be the world premiere and stars Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, Justin Theroux, Monica Bellucci, Jenna Ortega and Willem Dafoe. The 81st edition of the Venice Film Festival kicks off on 28 August. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice will be released in theatres and IMAX on 4 September. “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice marks the long-awaited return of one of the most iconic characters of Tim Burton’s cinema, but also th...
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We all want to see as much of a holiday destination as we can, but in places where public transport is scarce, it’s not always easy. Enter: Uber. The transport company has launched new boat options for this summer - from touristy cruises to yachts - meaning users of the service can access more places off the beaten track. The boats are being rolled out in some of Europe’s most popular tourist getaways. Just in time for the Olympics, Paris will play host to Uber Cruise, a free, one-hour trip set to run from 12 July to 3 August. Guests on the Seine-based adventure will be able to take in views o...
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Rome (AFP) - L'actrice américaine Sigourney Weaver, célèbre notamment pour son rôle dans la saga Alien, recevra un Lion d'or d'honneur pour l'ensemble de sa carrière au 81e Festival du Film de Venise, ont annoncé vendredi les organisateurs. "Une actrice du calibre de Sigourney Weaver a peu de rivales", a salué le directeur artistique du festival, Alberto Barbera, dans un communiqué. Sigourney Weaver est honorée pour avoir construit des ponts "entre le cinéma d'art et d'essai le plus sophistiqué et les films qui interagissent avec le public de manière franche et originale, tout en restant fidèl...
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New research by Italian scientists estimates that parts of Venice will be submerged by 2150. The study was carried out by experts at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) and analysed data on tide level rise. Venice has been battling increasingly frequent flooding for decades. There is now a system of flood barriers in place in its lagoon, a shallow, 550 km² enclosed bay in the northern Adriatic Sea that surrounds Venice and its islands. But these won’t be enough to protect the city from continual sinking and sea level rise. Venice will be underwater by 2150A team of scie...
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