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Rome mayor to convene meeting with tourism stakeholders.Tourist cancellations have reached 90 per cent in Rome for March due to the Coronavirus outbreak (despite there not being any active Coronavirus cases in the Lazio...
Rome's off-the-books tourism described as unsustainable. Rome's short rental sector including Airbnb welcomes more than 13 million 'phantom' tourists whose presence in the capital is off the books and not calculated by...
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Rome to limit tourist access to Trevi Fountain. Rome's city council assembly has backed plans to install a barrier around the famed Trevi Fountain to protect the Baroque monument from hordes of tourists. The motion,...
Souvenir stalls to be relocated away from sites in Rome's historic centre. Rome is to move 17 souvenir stalls away from some of the capital's most prestigious sites for "decorum and security" reasons, according to the c...
Italy is home to three of the world's Top 10 tourist attractions. Rome's Colosseum has been reconfirmed as the most popular tourist attraction in the world, for the second year in a row, based on booking data compiled b...
Gubbio lights up a mountain-side Christmas tree each year. The 'world's largest Christmas tree' is lit up each year on the slopes of Monte Ingino, overlooking the mediaeval town of Gubbio in the Umbrian region of centra...
Rome launches P.STOP Project in tourist areas. Tourists in Rome can now avail of new kiosks offering numerous services including tourist information, toilets and wi-fi. The P.STOP kiosks are located in tourist areas ar...
Italian tourists shocked with bill for four panini at bar near Vatican. Tourists visiting Rome were charged almost €120 for three hot dogs and a ham and cheese sandwich, plus four cans of Coca Cola and a bottle of water...
Passengers rank Rome airport among the best in Europe. Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci Airport, better known as Fiumicino, has achieved a new record for the quality of its passenger services, with a score of 4.46 out of five o...
Vintage steam train connects Rome to lakeside papal retreat. The long-awaited return of the historic Castelli Romani steam train from Rome's central Termini station to Castel Gandolfo, the summer retreat of the popes ov...
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Venice entry fee will apply to tourists on day-trip visits. Venice will begin charging tourists an entry fee from 1 July 2020, according to the city council. The fee, which was first announced late last year, will on...
Tourists face charges of drunkeness and threatening Rome police. Three Australian tourists were arrested at Rome's Trevi Fountain during the night of 14 October, after an altercation with city police, according to Itali...
American tourists carved name "Jeffy" into landmark monument. Two American brothers, both medical doctors, were arrested for carving one of their names into the Leaning Tower of Pisa, which dates to the 12th century....
€430 bill defended by owner of Rome bar-restaurant. Two Japanese tourists were charged €349 for two plates of spaghetti al cartoccio di pesce, with water, at the Antico Caffè di Marte on Via Banco di S. Spirito in the h...
Colosseum standard ticket price to rise by one third from 1 November. The cost of standard tickets at the Colosseum are to increase from €12 to €16 from 1 November 2019. The tickets, which are valid for one day, also...
Collapse of world's oldest holiday company triggers Britain's largest repatriation effort in history. UK tour operator Thomas Cook collapsed in the early hours of 23 September, stranding an estimated 150,000 British hol...
Giardino degli Aranci viewpoint closed for safety reasons. The famed viewpoint at Rome's Giardino degli Aranci, or Orange Garden, has been sealed off to the public for safety reasons due to structural concerns. Visit...
Payment still applies for Friday night late opening at Vatican Museums. The Vatican Museums are free to visitors on Friday 27 September, for the 2019 edition of World Tourism Day, from 09.00-18.00, with last entry at 16...
Peruvian tourist cited for violating Rome's drone ban. Rome police caught a 28-year-old Peruvian tourist flying a drone over the Colosseum on 7 September. The tourist faces charges of breaking Rome's strict no-fly po...
American tourist engraved "Tait" into Colosseum column. A 26-year-old visitor from the US has become the latest tourist to be caught vandalising the Colosseum. The man used a key to carve his name - "Tait" - into an...
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