{"id":242,"date":"2008-01-22T22:02:59","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T12:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/?p=242"},"modified":"2008-01-22T22:02:59","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T12:02:59","slug":"venice-locals-hit-back-on-the-grand-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/italy\/venice\/venice-locals-hit-back-on-the-grand-canal","title":{"rendered":"Venice &#8211; Locals hit back on the Grand Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1009507070974015\";\r\ngoogle_alternate_ad_url = \"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/google_adsense_script.html\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\r\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\r\n\/\/2007-06-30: TSBlog 300x250\r\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"2928184950\";\r\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_bg = 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Venice\" height=\"85\" style=\"width: 110px; height: 85px\" title=\"Grand Canal, Venice\" \/><\/a>Venetians are particularly offended by badly dressed day trippers who flock into the city, use their facilities, take up their space, breath their air, but don&#8217;t contribute anything to their economy at all.\u00a0 I recall an article some time back when the city&#8217;s major complained about budget travellers who brought their own sandwiches and drinks in plastic bags and apart from using up their resources, they also thrash up the environment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/Italy\/Venice\/GrandCanal\/_DSC0931.jpg.html\" title=\"Vaporetto on the Grand Canal, Venice\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" width=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/39278-2\/_DSC0931.jpg?resize=110%2C90\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Vaporetto on the Grand Canal, Venice\" height=\"90\" style=\"width: 110px; height: 90px\" title=\"Vaporetto on the Grand Canal, Venice\" \/><\/a>The truth is that budget tourists are not likely to be bothered by the city&#8217;s grizzling and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/Italy\/Venice\/italy_0168.jpg.html\" title=\"Venice by Night\"><\/a>the tourist boom continues.\u00a0 Some 20 million people visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/Italy\/Venice\/italy_0168.jpg.html\" title=\"Venice by Night\">Venice <\/a>each year &#8211; quite staggering really, when compared to only 60,000 residents in the historic centre.\u00a0 It&#8217;s no wonder that the residents feel swamped.\u00a0 Various discussions and proposals to stem the tide of visitors to Venice include, limiting access to the historic center to imposing a tourism tax, however such <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/Italy\/Venice\/italy_0168.jpg.html\" title=\"Travel on the Grand Canal, Venice\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\" width=\"85\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/18807-2\/italy_0168.jpg?resize=85%2C110\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Travel on the Grand Canal, Venice\" height=\"110\" style=\"width: 85px; height: 110px\" title=\"Travel on the Grand Canal, Venice\" \/><\/a>measures are difficult to implement as well as being unpopular with tourism industry workers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/Italy\/Venice\/italy_0164.jpg.html\" title=\"Travel on the Grand Canal, Venice\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/Italy\/Venice\/italy_0164.jpg.html\" title=\"Travel on the Grand Canal, Venice\"><\/a>Well, it seems that the City of Venice is striking back.\u00a0 Yesterday, the Director General of the Venice Transport Authority announced a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/Italy\/Venice\/GrandCanal\/_DSC0931.jpg.html\" title=\"Grand Canal waterbus line, Venice\">Grand Canal waterbus line <\/a>here with one particular feature: Day-tripper tourists are not allowed!\u00a0 The new line is strictly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/Italy\/Venice\/italy_0164.jpg.html\" title=\"Travel on the Grand Canal, Venice\"><\/a>reserved for holders of the Carta Venezia pass.\u00a0 As a visitor, you can buy of of the Carta Venezia, but it&#8217;s only sensible to do <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/Italy\/Venice\/italy_0164.jpg.html\" title=\"Travel on the Grand Canal, Venice\"><\/a>so if you are going to be a repeat visitor to Venice.\u00a0 The Carta Venezia costs Euro 40 for non-residents and is valid for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/Italy\/Venice\/italy_0164.jpg.html\" title=\"Travel on the Grand Canal, Venice\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" width=\"90\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/18799-2\/italy_0164.jpg?resize=90%2C110\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"On the Grand Canal, Venice\" height=\"110\" style=\"width: 90px; height: 110px\" title=\"On the Grand Canal, Venice\" \/><\/a>three years.\u00a0 This special waterbus service for residents should pacify the natives, but one wonders how long this is going to remain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/Italy\/Venice\/italy_0164.jpg.html\" title=\"Travel on the Grand Canal, Venice\"><\/a>viable considering the small local population.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, the numbers of times that we&#8217;ve been to Venice and taken numerous rides on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/Italy\/Venice\/italy_0164.jpg.html\" title=\"Travel on the Grand Canal, Venice\">Grand Canal<\/a>, we&#8217;ve never felt that we were packed in like sardines.\u00a0 During peak hours of course the vaporettos are more crowded and may mean that you don&#8217;t get a seat, but hey that&#8217;s no big deal!<\/p>\n<p>Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years now, we&#8217;ve heard the City of Venice complain about the hordes of tourists that invade and crowd out their beautiful city.\u00a0 The Venetians are particularly offended by badly dressed day trippers who flock into the city, use their facilities, take up their space, breath their air, but don&#8217;t contribute anything to their economy 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