Will a €30 Venice ticket cut day-trippers or just raise money?
Timeline for Michele Zuin
Told Il Gazzettino on 21 September that about €30 could be the solution
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Michele Zuin is the budget assessor in the executive of the Comune di Venezia, the municipal government of Venice, Italy. The POST gives him responsibility for the city's budget, including the revenue from its day-visitor access fee.
That fee charged €5 or €10 on 60 peak days in 2026. By 26 July the season had brought in €5,215,035, part of it earmarked for residents' waste bills. His proposal for 2027 is a peak-day price of about €30.
His proposal places Venice's finance office at the centre of the city's overtourism debate, which turns on whether a per-entry charge is a visitor CAP or a revenue tool.
Zuin floats a €30 peak-day charge
Zuin's proposal, reported on 25 September, would lift Venice's day-visitor charge to about €30 on peak days from 2027. In 2026 the fee was €5 for visitors WHO booked ahead and €10 for late bookers.
Zuin manages the budget that books the fee. Takings for 2026 reached €5,215,035 across 679,553 vouchers by 26 July, and €1.771m was earmarked to lower residents' waste bills. A top rate six times higher would make the access fee a FAR larger source of municipal income, and would test whether a higher price thins the peak-day crowds or simply raises more money from them.
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Who is Michele Zuin?
