Popular European destination launches €10 daily tourist tax
The ‘day tax’ comes into effect from this week to the end of July.
By Staff Writers, April 14 2025
Venice will charge ‘day tripping’ tourists a €10 fee to enter the city beginning on Friday 18 April in an effort to address what has been described as over-tourism.
The controversial Venice Access Fee was introduced on a trial basis in 2024 at €5, alongside other measures such as a 25-person limit on walking tours and banning tour guides from using megaphones.
The increased €10 levy will apply every day from 18 April to 4 May, and then every weekend until the end of July, for all visitors coming to Venice between 8.30am and 4pm without an overnight reservation in the city.
How to pay Venice’s tourist tax
Payment of the Venice Access Fee is required in advance through a dedicated online portal, and booking your ‘slot’ more than four days in advance delivers a 50% discount, with the fee dropping to €5.
The tourist levy fee won’t apply to people with hotel reservations or children under 14.
However, it sits alongside the existing overnight bed tax, which varies between low and high season from €1 to €5 and is payable for the first five consecutive nights.
The Venetian government hopes the higher day-visitor fee will help reduce overcrowding in key sights such as Saint Mark’s Square and the Doge’s Palace, or at the very least allow the city council to better manage the impact of high over-tourism.
Measures to control the influx of visitors into Venice have been debated for years, with an overnight tax rolled out in 2011 and ban on larger cruise ships introduced in 2021 just two of the methods intended to preserve the historic city.
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
09 Jun 2017
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I have no problem with Venice charging the daily tourist tax for non-stayers. I have been to Venice a few times and when it was suggested that we stay for a bit while on a holiday in January, I was initially not so keen because of my experience of rubbish on the streets, rats and stinking canals but to my absolute surprise I was amazed with how clean and tidy the city was. No rubbish anywhere due to the early morning collectors who knock on your door to pick up any bags of rubbish you have, streets are swept and all the public bins emptied. The water in the canals was crystal clear, something not seen in Venice before. This of course has to be paid for and the ‘bed tax’ contributes to this. The day visitors also need to contribute.
Etihad - Etihad Guest
21 Jul 2019
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The limiting of group tour sizes and banning of megaphones are so plainly beneficial that I'm surprised these measures weren't enacted decades earlier.
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
09 Jun 2017
Total posts 95
Totally agree sunnybrae. The behaviour of tour groups throughout Europe can be horrendous. I have had 2 recent ‘run ins’ with tour group leaders due to either their obnoxious behaviour or the behaviour of members of their tour group for which they are responsible. I wont go into detail but in both cases, apologies were received and those involved picked up their game very quickly.
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