If you want to visit Venice this summer you have to buy a ticket. Making the city more livable for visitors and launching new tourist routes is what Venice's mayor is attempting to accomplish by launching the new ticket system for visitors to the city.
What is means is that if you want to visit Venice this summer, you must make a reservation.Recording the names of visitors to the city
"This is the right way - says Mayor Luigi Brugnaro in an interview with the Corriere del Veneto newspaper - and now many people have understood it.” The mayor's plan is to launch a computer platform – ready in a couple of months - to record the names of anyone who wants to enter the city. Even residents of the Veneto region will have to register and pay but there is no obligation for Venetians. To start there will be no penalties, and there will be discounts and incentives for those who book. "We will be the first in the world - adds Brugnaro - with this difficult experiment.”
A summer with a ticket
In a nutshell, this summer to stroll around Venice, hop on its water transport or just sit in a shady corner and relax, you will need to book a ticket first. And it looks like being a good thing as over the Easter weekend the city’s carrying capacity was sorely challenged by the arrival of over 140,000 visitors.