The polls in the Italian city are framed as an existential dilemma over whether to change course in the face of overtourism and the unstoppable rise in sea levels
I don’t think it will ever completely remove tourism, but the current approach is going to ruin the tourist industry too.
There’s nothing left in the old city any more, it’s all tourism. And who’s going to come to visit a bunch of overpriced souvenir shops on an island?
Do note that the city is sinking due to how and where they build the whole city, and tourism is accelerating the demise of it. So overtourism will kill the city one way or another.
I hope they can reinvent themselves, but what industry does Venice even have outside petrochemical refineries on the mainland?
I don’t think it will ever completely remove tourism, but the current approach is going to ruin the tourist industry too.
There’s nothing left in the old city any more, it’s all tourism. And who’s going to come to visit a bunch of overpriced souvenir shops on an island?
Do note that the city is sinking due to how and where they build the whole city, and tourism is accelerating the demise of it. So overtourism will kill the city one way or another.
For some tourists that is exactly the objective.
Glass souvenirs made in China.
Glass
Most of the glass shops have shut down due to gas costs.
Didn’t know that ,ty for info
Most shops were in Burano or Murano, demand for that work has diminished and glass uses a fortune in gas.