The UN organisation says Italy is not doing enough to protect the city from the impact of climate crisis and mass tourism.
The UN cultural agency has recommended adding Venice to its world heritage site blacklist, reigniting a debate over the city’s long-standing problems: over-tourism and the effects of a growing climate crisis on its structural fragility.
These factors, it added, “are causing deterioration and damage to building structures and urban areas, degrading the cultural and social identity of and threatening the integrity of its cultural, environmental and landscape attributes and values.” For instance, Fabio Carrera, a professor at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, calculated that an average of 82,000 visitors poured into Venice every day in the few years before the pandemic, putting the number of yearly tourists in the city at roughly 30 million.
In June 2019, a cruise ship crashed into a pier, damaging a smaller boat and injuring five people. The accident energised a local campaign to keep the ships out of the heart of Venice.An estimated 5.7 million tourists visited Venice in 2021, compared to almost 13 million in 2019.Yet, the problem of over-tourism and addressing the fragility of the city persist.
It did not comment further. A spokesman for Italy’s Culture Ministry said the minister did not comment on the matter.
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