Venice, submerged first by high tide or by tourists?

2017, declared the official year of Sustainable Tourism in the world, was an opportunity to inform and remind everyone of the danger of climate change which is modifying habitats, making the ecosystem increasingly fragile, resulting in sudden natural disasters.

We want to promote, also in 2019, greater attention and sensitivity towards the environment. For this purpose, it is important that everyone is more educated and intelligent in their behavior and respect towards nature, not ruining it, but respecting and preserving it in a civilized way, these are the fundamental principles of responsible and sustainable tourism.

Overtourism, or tourist “over-influence”, can lead to greater risks when people, in crowds, invade territories, forgetting their uniqueness, be they intended as parks, nature reserves, cities etc…

Venice, part of the acclaimed UNESCO heritage, is invaded by millions of tourists every year and throughout the year. The risk is that this icon of Italian artistic, historical and cultural beauty will be ‘submerged’ by the myriad of people rather than by the rising of the high tide. They are both looming threats that should not be underestimated in order to preserve the uniqueness of this city and thus also protect sustainable Venetian tourism.

Finally the Municipality of Venice has decided to put an end to the tourist outrage, fining up to 500 Euros those who leave rubbish on the street or in the sea or show indecorous behavior towards the environment, exchanging this splendid city for a port landfill or a Caribbean beach.

Therefore promote ‘sustainable Venice’, an Italian heritage which unfortunately, also according to the mass media, is disappearing in different ways if, for example, unkempt and left to ruin, if destroyed for interests that also make us forget every historical connection and tradition to the city.