The proposed entry fee of €5 per person will begin in solidly in 2025 but will be tested out on certain days during 2024.  This fee is for day-trippers only, folks who have come for a daytime visit without reserved accommodations in the municipal Venice area.

• The fee will need to be paid ahead online for each person over the age of fourteen in your party and will result in a special QR Code delivered to your smart device.
• Hotels and apartment rentals during the trail dates will now have an exemption QR Code for free, (because a tourist tax is already in place for accommodations.)
• There will not be gates, turnstiles, barriers or queues to control arriving visitors. Instead, simple random checks on tourists will be carried out by officials. Your paid (or exempt) QR code will need to be immediately presented in the event of an inspection.  If you fail the inspection you will be fined.
• Children under age fifteen are exempt from paying any entry fee.
• Tour bus passengers who have paid the ZTL bus tax will also be exempt from any entry fee.

The Venice city council has announced these twenty-nine days for 2024 visits:

• April 25–30
• May 1–5, 11–12, 18–19, 25–26
• June 8–9, 15–16, 22–23, 29–30
• July 6–7, 13–14

In order to pay the fee, daytime visitors will need to log on at http://cda.ve.it, where they will be able to obtain a QR code that can be shown to the authorities in the event of random checks on the dates above. The QR code certifies payment of the contribution (or of a lodging exemption) and must be kept on you at all times.

-This QR code proving your payment of the entry fee will be needed between the hours of 8:30am – 4pm only, on the above dates.

If you will be in Venice without any lodging reservations during the daytime dates above in 2024, you will need to pay the €5 entry fee.  It is intended to relieve the local Venetian residents of some of the costs to maintain the city and its services. Right now, they alone pay for its upkeep.

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