‘We feel like foreigners in our own home’ says activist as city’s population dwarfed by visitors
The number of beds available to tourists on Venice’s main island has surpassed the number of year-round residents for the first time, as aThere are now 49,693 tourist beds across hotels and rented holiday homes, compared with 49,304 inhabitants.
Venessia.com, an activist group that for years has campaigned to preserve Venice’s heritage, has been keeping track of the population level in the historic centre, displaying the dwindling figure on an electronic ticker in the window of Morelli chemists since 2008.“We feel like foreigners in our own home, because when you walk along the streets we are in the minority,” said Matteo Secchi, who leads Venessia.com.
“We never imagined that within a few months the number on the ticker would exceed that of the residents’ ticker,” the association said in a statement on its website.
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