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Venice will charge tourists who don’t spend the night in the city a €5 entry fee (english.elpais.com)

submitted 1 year ago by boem@lemmy.world to c/europe@feddit.de

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[–] muelltonne@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm not a fan - i totally understand why Venice is doing this, but this is a violation of my freedom of movement as a EU citizen. I'm allowed to visit every country in the EU without restrictions and I'm allowed to walk over every public space there if I want to. If Venice is allowed to do a 5€ entrance fee for their public spaces and the whole city, there is nothing preventing another rich people town from imposing a 5000€ entry fee or something like that and I really don't like that.

[–] TheWheelMustGoOn@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Not everything is always a slippery slope argument...Also good luck enforcing this in any other city. This only works in venice because there are only a few ways to get in. To do that in lets say nice you would need to fortify the city...That will just not happen.

[–] pulsey@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Going to the German island of Norderney also costs a fee. Not sure the ferry, but you also pay a certain amount of money per Day. It's called Kurtaxe and it's quite similar to the proposed fee

[–] taladar@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kurtaxe is usually just charged per overnight stay in most places. Is that different in Norderney?

[–] hillbicks@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

In a lot of places it already applies if you enter the beach, so this is not something new I reckon.

[–] tillimarleen@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

not the ideal place to bring up freedom of movement. Better to fight for it in other matters. For example border checks between Austria and Bavaria that have been going on for years now.

[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is it breaking new legal ground, if toll roads already exist and are legal and overnight stay tax (aka tourist tax) is too?

[–] anewbeginning@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Those are related to use of infrastructure/services.

[–] agarorn@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

So is this?

[–] Lemmchen@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't imagine the European Union will let this slip.

[–] uint8_t@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

I can!

[–] Geruchsverbot@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

This is outrageous!

I’m not gonna visit Venice again. Maybe I should book some more intercontinental flights to turn Venice into Atlantis.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Venice is sinking and is small. So many people want to visit, I think it's fair.

[–] AAA@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know why some people are so outraged. It's not any different to well established practices in other countries. Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Italy (Alps part)... all have similar guest fees. Sometimes you pay them as part of your stay, sometimes separately.

[–] hh93@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At least in Germany they always are attached to overnight stays afaik

I'm not sure how you'd enforce such a fee generally except for cities like Venice that get a lot of visitors by cruise ship

[–] Aiyub@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know Waren has a day fee in addition to the night fee.

[–] timkmz@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol been in waren multiple times (never at a hotell tho) and havent heard anything about it.

[–] Aiyub@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

5 month now. Maybe you have been there before or outside the taxed area

[–] noobnarski@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

I know at least one german municipality where the beach is only allowed to be entered with a Kurticket, at least thats what a sign says, I didnt need to show my card once.

[–] aksdb@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

That's not Ve(ry)nice of them.