Tourism in Venice

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• Tourism in Venice

Emiliano Ramieri
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Tourist typologies

• Overnight staying Tourists stay in Venice for
  more than one day
• Day trippers visit Venice in a day
• Direct day trippers move daily from their
  residential place
• Improper direct day trippers their tourist
  destination is Venice, but their accommodation is
  outside Venice historical centre
• Indirect day trippers have a different tourist
  destination (mainly seaside resorts in Cavallino
  and Chioggia) and visit Venice as an integrative
  destination
• Transits

Data referred to 1996 source COSES, 2001
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Overnight staying tourists in Venice
Source data APT elaboration Statistics and
Research Bureau of Venice Municipality
In 2006 about 2.000.000 arrivals (6.7) and
5.400.000 presences (9.4)
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Overnight staying tourists in Venice Municipality
(1)
Source data APT elaboration Statistics and
Research Bureau of Venice Municipality
Municipality Venice Mestre and Marghera
Cavallino (till 1999) Lido
In 1999 about 3.200.000 arrivals and 11.260.000
presences
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Overnight staying tourists in Venice Municipality
(2)
Data referred to 1999 source APT
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Tourists and day trippers
Data referred to 2002 source Mag.Acque
Corila, 2008

• High incidence of day trippers (about 75)
• Overnight staying tourists generate greater
  contribution to total turn over (about 60),
  while day-trippers economic contribution is
  relatively marginal
• Benefits generated by Venice tourism are
  distributed over a larger area, also including
  other municipalities
• Socio-economic and environmental impacts tends to
  concentrate on Venice historical centre

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Monthly distribution
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Monthly distribution (data referred to 2005) of
presences of overnight staying tourists in Venice
(1) Mestre and Marghera (2) Lido (3) (Source
Statistics and Research Bureau of Venice
Municipality)
Indirect day trippers prefer summer period, while
direct day trippers are concentrated in the
May-September period
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Tourism impacts on the urban system

• Increase in prices of real estates, goods and
  services
• Congestion of main tourist areas and of public
  transportation
• Replacement of no-tourist economic activities and
  urban functions
• Mono-specialization of economic activities
• Increase in waste generation and resource
  consumption
• Increase in transportation demand and wave
  impacts on the urban infrastructure

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Tourist carrying capacity
Calculation of the indicator is rather difficult,
Few estimations are available

• According to Canestrelli and Costa (1991)
• Maximum daily carrying capacity for Venice is
  about 25.000 visitors (11.000 overnight tourist
  and 14.000 day trippers)
• This limits was exceeded in 156 days in 1987 and
  216 days in 2000
• Optimal daily carrying capacity is lower about
  22.000 visitors (11.200 overnight tourist and
  10.800 day trippers)

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Indicator of tourist pressure (1)
Ratio between yearly number of visitors and
resident population
Data referred to 1990 and to overnight staying
tourists and day trippers source Van der Borg
and Russo, 1997
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Indicator of tourist pressure (2)
Data referred to overnight staying tourists
source Van der Borg and Russo, 1997 Statistics
and Research Bureau of Venice Municipality
Residential population trend
source Statistics and Research Bureau of Venice
Municipality
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Indicator of tourist congestion

• According to Indovina (1988), public space of
  Venice historical centre is utilized according to
  this general distribution 34 tourists 49.3
  residents 12.6 commuters 4.1 students
• In main tourist areas tourist is higher 56.9
  on average and 66.9 in the July-October period
  (Di Maria et al., 2003)

Distribution of accommodation structures in
November 2003 (source Zanon et al., 2004)
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Venice Ecological footprint
Data referred to 2002 source ARPAV and Regione
Veneto, 2002 Tiezzi (2004) WWF (2002)
Head ecological footprint (hectares)
Ecological footprint of Venice Province is
influenced by tourists. Contribution of overnight
staying tourist is about 8.5 (Tiezzi, 2004),
while day trippers contribution is unknown
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Tourism impact on Venice Lagoon

• Main environmental impacts of tourism on Venice
  Lagoon are linked to water transportation demand
  and relative negative effects on lagoons
  morphologies
• Tourism water transportation contribution is
  about 13 during the summer period

Boats per day during summer 2002. Results of
model simulation (source Mag.Acque Technital,
2002)
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