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Episode: Hefty fines incoming for tourists who fail to pay entrance fee to Venice’s historic city center
Description: Day-trippers to the fabled canal city of Venice who failed to pay 5 euros ($5.43) to enter the lagoon city’s historic center during a time-limited pilot program launched in April faced fines starting at 10 times the entrance fee.
Venice has launched the long-discussed day-tripper fee after the city escaped being placed on the U.N. agency’s list of endangered heritage sites, due largely to the impact of overtourism.
Officials have avoided calling it a tax, opting for softer words like access fee, and have downplayed the possibility of waits to enter the city, emphasizing there will be no turnstiles or phys...