Broken statues and damaged regulations remind Italy that while desperately wanting a tourist boost, some visitors are still welcome.
With Italy’s tourism industry in crisis, the country is determined to attract visitors, but a wave of recent stunts from foreign tourists draws attention to the kind of tourism the country needs to recover.
Venice, a city that depends almost exclusively on tourism for its income, was one of the most affected by the COVID-19 restrictions, but only a day after the city could receive tourists from the Schengen domain and the United Kingdom, two German visitors ruined the sense of optimism.
Many Venetian citizens saw closure as an opportunity for the city to reconsider its bad relationship with mass tourism and get rid of chaotic and disrespectful visitors.Instead, some of the first foreign visitors to the city proved that the war would be long.The Germans stripped naked in swimsuits, jumped into the Grand Canal, swimming under the Rialto Bridge and climbed to the other side.The waterfall is not only illegal, but also shows a brazen cultural price of Venice’s famous canal and bridge.
The swimming trick followed an Austrian tourist who broke the feet of a 200-year-old canova statue in Possagno as he tried to photograph himself by casually hitting the statue’s legs with his elbow and imitating his elongated pose.Not knowing the damage he had caused at the time, CCTV images show the guy noticing and moving something near his foot as he gets up.Since then he has apologized for the reckless act.
Trying to dedicate notable monuments seemed like a clever concept through a French tourist, a black marker at Florence’s Ponte Vecchio, and a couple, a German and a Slovak, who chose a two-cent coin as a selection weapon to engrave.their names in the Trevi Fountain in Rome.Fortunately, both acts were detected by the police.
The authorities are now in favor of a young woman who climbed into the fragile archaeological remains of Pompeii to take a selfie.
Although the Italian tourism industry is suffering without the same summer influx of visitors, it is not about attracting tourists at all costs.
A bill, introduced in Parliament’s small space last month, calls for more difficult consequences to undermine artistic and cultural heritage.
There is also a call to teach visitors more before they arrive in Italy.As the national newspaper La Repubblica wrote tuesday: “There is a surveillance, but also a lack of preparation for visitors.”
The citizens of Venice recommending post-COVID visitors to the city inspired the importance of preparing, setting the stage in the position you are visiting and respecting.
As Roberto Ferronato, director of the historic Caffe Florian in St. Mark’s Square, commented, Venice is “the heritage of all”, such as Rome, Florence or Pompeii.
I’ve been writing about my country often since I moved here five years after graduating.
I’ve been writing about my country since I moved here five years ago after graduating from Cambridge University with a degree in art history.