Tickets to visit ruins buried by Mount Vesuvius, seen by 4 million this summer, to be capped at 20,000 a day
Pompeii plans to limit visitor numbers to 20,000 a day and introduce personalised tickets from next week in an effort to cope with overtourism and protect the world heritage site, officials said.
The archaelogical park’s director, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, said visitors to the main site now exceed an average of 15,000-20,000 every day, and the new daily cap would prevent the numbers from rising further.
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