ROME: Visitors to Venice should pay a new tax to lend a hand quilt the prices of conserving the tourist-thronged historic city clean and protected, city officers have introduced.
The measure, passed past due on Saturday as part of the funds bill, permits the city government from July to being charging vacationers a touchdown charge of between 2.five and 10 euros (USD 2.Nine-11.five) relying at the season.
The price covers all visitors, whether they're staying in a single day or not. That method it's going to follow to day-trippers such because the 1000's of cruise ship passengers who these days get away the prevailing tax charged by inns and the house owners of rented properties for the ones staying in a single day.
Some 600 cruise ships stop at Venice annually, helping drive court cases that the city is being swamped by the thousands and thousands of tourists who consult with each and every year.
Airlines and coach firms might also cross at the new tax in their charges.
City officers estimate that the tax could bring in 50 million euros ($55 million) a year.
"The cost of cleaning the historic centre and its security are particular and for years have been covered by Venetians," the centre-right mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro, told day-to-day La Repubblica.
"Thank you to all those who from now on will help us keep Venice clean and allow Venetians to live more comfortably." On Twitter, Brugnaro added that the government had been looking at measures to verify visitors operating or studying in the city were not affected.
A equivalent touchdown tax is already in place at the Aeolian isles off Sicily, and Lampedusa, Italy's southernmost island.
The measure, passed past due on Saturday as part of the funds bill, permits the city government from July to being charging vacationers a touchdown charge of between 2.five and 10 euros (USD 2.Nine-11.five) relying at the season.
The price covers all visitors, whether they're staying in a single day or not. That method it's going to follow to day-trippers such because the 1000's of cruise ship passengers who these days get away the prevailing tax charged by inns and the house owners of rented properties for the ones staying in a single day.
Some 600 cruise ships stop at Venice annually, helping drive court cases that the city is being swamped by the thousands and thousands of tourists who consult with each and every year.
Airlines and coach firms might also cross at the new tax in their charges.
City officers estimate that the tax could bring in 50 million euros ($55 million) a year.
"The cost of cleaning the historic centre and its security are particular and for years have been covered by Venetians," the centre-right mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro, told day-to-day La Repubblica.
"Thank you to all those who from now on will help us keep Venice clean and allow Venetians to live more comfortably." On Twitter, Brugnaro added that the government had been looking at measures to verify visitors operating or studying in the city were not affected.
A equivalent touchdown tax is already in place at the Aeolian isles off Sicily, and Lampedusa, Italy's southernmost island.
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