Venice to start charging visitors entry fee next year.
Holidaymakers will soon be required to pay an admission fee if they want to gain entry to Venice.
The city will trial a ticketing system from spring next year, with day visitors charged €5 to enter the historic centre in an attempt to reduce tourist numbers.
The charge is levied at visitors aged 14 and over.
Residents, commuters, students and tourists who stay in the city overnight are also exempt, the local authority said in a statement.
Venice tourism councillor, Simone Venturini, insists the scheme is not about making money.
The aim was to find “a new balance between the rights of those who live, study or work in Venice and those who visit the city,” he said.
The exact dates of the plan and how it will be run will be agreed after final council approval, which is expected next week.
Authorities in Venice have for years sought to ease the pressure of the vast numbers of tourists who flock to the floating city
The ticketing plan has been repeatedly postponed over concerns it will seriously dent tourist revenue and compromise freedom of movement.
Two years ago, the city imposed a ban on large cruise ships, which dropped off thousands of visitors a day, rerouting them to an industrial port.
However, tourist numbers remained high, with about 3.2 million staying overnight in Venice’s historic centre last year, according to official data.
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