'No to tickets, yes to services and housing': Venetians protest €5 tourist entry fee

The fee was introduced yesterday for daytime visitors to tackle overtourism in the city.

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00:00 Hundreds of Venetians staged a rally, clashing with the police over the new 5 euro entry

00:09 fee for the city. The fee, which will apply to daytime tourists, is designed to combat

00:15 excess tourism. Protesters say the authorities are diverting attention away from real problems

00:22 and instead are making things worse for the city.

00:24 "Venice is saving itself by giving homes to the residents, by repopulating it. The ticket

00:31 simply goes to counteract the daily tourism. It does not have any influence on the big

00:38 flows that come from the East, from China, from America, so nothing changes at all."

00:48 The 5 euro fee was first introduced for a month-long trial run. It intends to curb the

00:55 influx of one-day tourists who spend but a few hours in Venice without contributing much,

01:01 if any, into the city's economy, yet overcrowd the city's streets and canals.

01:07 (whooshing)