A MUCH-LOVED Italian holiday destination is set to charge visitors £25 just to enter the city.
Venice is looking to raise its tourist entry fee to €30 (£25.13) as well as increasing the time frame for when it applies.
Venice’s budget and taxation councillor Michele Zuin told Reuters that the current €5 (£4.19) to €10 (£8.38) fee is no longer deterring excessive visitor numbers.
As a result, there are now proposals to raise the fee in 2027.
The proposed new fee of €30 (£25.13) would cost more than some flight tickets to Venice from the UK.
For example, one-way flights in November and December cost as little as £13 per person.
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And a return would only cost you a couple of quid more than the proposed fee, with £27 return flights in December from the UK.
Michele Zuin told regional news: “The current €5-10 charge is affordable for virtually everyone; the risk is that it no longer has the deterrent effect that this measure is supposed to have.”
There are even talks of the fee going up to €50 (£41.89) in the future.
The fee was originally introduced back in 2024 for day trippers entering the city.
Visitors would be able to pay less if they booked in advance and there are a number of exemptions including for children under the age of 14-years-old.
This year, the fee was in place between April 3 and July 26, between 8:30am and 4pm each day.
The new fee would need to be agreed on by the government before being introduced.
The fee was originally introduced to battle overtourism in the city.
The fee and when it applies for 2027 will be announced before the end of the year.