Venice is one of Europe’s most popular tourist destinations. In 2023, the city of 51 thousand residents welcomed roughly 5.7 million visitors.
The city’s local government has recently introduced a tourist tax, which has to be paid by those travelling at peak times and weekends. While the local government is hopeful it will fix the relationship between tourists and residents, not everyone is happy.
This is the first of three videos on the issue of overtourism in Europe, published by our Hungarian partner @negynegynegy .
This shortdoc is part of our “Stories Breaking Borders” series. To watch other films in the series, check out our channel.
