Venice from 2022 will be closed-door. Turnstiles, entrance fee and flow control

Venice, from 2022 will change the way tourists arrive and enter the city: the city will have a limited number of tourists, there will be a system of electronic gates at access points (an app will allow people to book their access), and they will pay a fee to enter, the so-called “landing fee” that was already provided for by the Budget Law in 2019 but never came into force. Residents, commuters and other categories that will be defined later will be exempt from paying the fee. It appears, however, that even those exempted will have to book their own entry.

The first test turnstile will be installed in September at Tronchetto (it will be put to the test by employees of the municipality and investee companies), and the municipality plans to bring the project into full swing in the summer of 2022. The decision came after a monitoring of tourism in this summer of 2021: tourists have in fact started showing up in the lagoon again, and the administration has decided that the time is ripe to apply the controlled entry system. It seems that turnstiles should be placed at the arrival points of tourists, namely Santa Lucia station, Piazzale Roma and the launch terminal.

However, the proposal of the center-right administration, led by Mayor Luigi Brugnaro, is being attacked by the opposition, and speaking out against the idea of a number-restricted Venice is Councilwoman Monica Sambo of the Pd, who attacks the administration from her Facebook page: “After 6 years, the administration has still not initiated any plan for the management and programming of tourism,” Sambo writes. “The municipality of Venice has received countless state resources for tourism management and planning. It is enough just to recall the 10 million of the Pact for Venice. Unfortunately, the Brugnaro junta has decided to allocate these funds for other functions that are totally unacceptable (such as the millions diverted to the boat show) . We could have experimented and planned for the new arrivals, taking advantage precisely of the pandemic period to rethink also a new model for Venice, instead the administration behaves as if nothing had happened. Given that the resources were there, we have been asking as PD for years for a serious investment on flow management, yet it is still at a standstill, we have barely started counting visitors, but with no strategy and no flow management policy. No flow management and planning policy, here is the return of turnstiles, which do not really limit arrivals and are in fact absolutely useless.”

Venice from 2022 will be closed-door. Turnstiles, entrance fee and flow control

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