ROME
Tourist hub Venice, Italy will begin charging visitor entrance fees in July 2020, local media said Friday.
The city's municipal council decided that non-residents seeking entry would be charged an entrance fee between €3 ($3.3) and €8 ($9), according to the Rome-based ANSA news agency.
Reports said the fee would rise in 2021 to between €6 ($6.6) and €10 ($11).
The city hosts 20 million tourists annually -- far exceeding its capacity -- according to the daily Telegraph.
* Writing by Fatih Hafiz Mehmet in Ankara
