Venice extends tourist tax for 2025

Most cities around the world make visitors pay a tax of some sort for visiting. In the US, it is a "hotel tax" for every night you stay. It varies. Usually the state, province, and city have their fingers in the money. There's also often a "tourism board" tax so they can make advertising to get people to come for a visit, explain what to do, where and when.

I know that I've stayed outside some cities to avoid this lodging tax because there's was high and 5 miles away, it was 5-15% less.

Venice has always been sinking. They built a city on a swamp ... er ... sorry ... lagoon. For 1000+ yrs, using over 10M tree trunks, they've created mostly stable platforms for buildings. https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/the-surprising-foundations-of-venice It is very interesting. All the engineering around water management near Venice is pretty amazing. The tree trunks from 800+ yrs ago have been found to be in great condition when pulled up. It is pretty amazing.

For day-trippers into Venice, having some sort of entry tax to maintain the city, if it actually goes for that purpose, makes sense. Whenever any govt collects fees or taxes, we all know to watch what actually happens to that money.

We've stayed in Venice for 4 nights in February 2019 and I'm afraid to say the whole experience was under whelming. As a tourist you have to pay more than locals on public transport, a hotel tax per night. Everything is very expensive and basically once you've seen one little canal you've seen them all. St Marks square was party flooded and using any of the cafes in the square are only for the super rich.

There are so many beautiful cities to visit in Europe without going to the obvious ones, Like Venice, Rome, Paris or Barcelona. Our favourites have been, Lisbon, Florence, Krakow, Venice, Salzburg and Bern, not forgetting, Osaka, Kyoto and Okayama. Although anywhere in Switzerland is very expensive