The mayor of Nice is moving to ban large cruise ships from docking in its port, aiming to tackle pollution and overtourism. The decision mirrors Venice’s 2021 ban, introduced to protect its fragile environment and infrastructure.
The mayor of Nice is moving to ban large cruise ships from docking in its port, aiming to tackle pollution and overtourism. The decision mirrors Venice’s 2021 ban, introduced to protect its fragile environment and infrastructure.
Also against popular tourism.
While I understand the main reason of this ban, like similar ones they tend to stop regular people to visit then everything becomes more exclusive and costly. So less people, richer. I don’t have a solution, but that’s just an obvious outcome
nothing stopping people from just flying to Nice if that is where they want to go, there are many other ways to travel to Nice
Problem with cruise ships is that cruise passengers don’t spend much money in the places they go to. I went on a cruise once myself and if I get three all-you-can-eat buffets a day included in the cruise fare, no way am I going to a restaurant on land. So I get why places don’t like this.
as there are lots of ways to reach Venezia, but still… however you make a bold point
I mean in Venice you have to admit that cruise ships offer a very unique view on the city. To my knowledge, they travelled through Canale della Giudecca when they were still allowed there, i.e. cruise ship passengers could view the entire city center including Piazza San Marco from above in a way you can’t anymore nowadays. But of course that also made them a nuisance to everyone else because of waves and also because this just doesn’t look very nice.
Venice is so uniquely beautiful I wouldn’t want to spend just one day there anyway, so abolishing cruises there may be good for the tourists too.
Of course, that’s because it’s Venice! Uhm.
Sorry. Great comment, carry on.
The Nice region gets completely overrun during tourist season. Normally you can control the level of tourism through the number of hotel rooms in the area, but that doesn’t work when you get multiple floating hotels turning up.