Venice will not charge the tourist tax until 2021.
What will become of Venice when the coronavirus crisis ends? Will the Venetian authorities take advantage to try to change a type of tourism that has wreaked havoc in the city of canals? The health crisis has exposed an empty city with crystal clear waters that are cleaner than usual.
The hoaxes have spread through the networks and some even dared to say that dolphins and swans could be seen swimming through the channels. As we already denied in Traveler.es, the global tourist break had literally calmed its waters and hence they looked cleaner.
Venice and its neighbors have unexpectedly been able to enjoy an empty city like never seen before , but it is not known until when.
Little is known about what the Italian government's roadmap will be in this regard for the city, but it is At the moment the tourist tax will be postponed until 2021 due to the health crisis.
This rate, as we already announced, had been postponed from January 2020 to July 2020 , and had the purpose of regulating the arrival of tourists to Venice.
In recent years, the city and its neighbors have been overwhelmed by massive tourism, which allowed the arrival of cruise ships to its coast on a daily basis. Its 53,000 inhabitants had to put up with around 30 million tourists a year..
Said tourist tax must be paid to enter its old town and other smaller islands in the lagoon , and not only intended to regulate the access of visitors but also to be able to defray the costs derived from tourism (cleaning, maintenance, waste management...).
But the coronavirus, much more serious in the Veneto region, has changed the government's plans. As confirmed by the mayor Luigi Brugnaro the rate still stands but it will be postponed to 2021.
The entrance price will range between** 3 euros**, in low season, and between 10 euros, in high season , and will not apply to those who travel to Venice for work, academic or family reasons.
Luigi Brugnaro commented that the authorities hope to encourage "a different type of tourism to Venice" once the coronavirus crisis has passed, noting that " Venice is Venice, and when the crisis is over, tourism will start again".