Tourists traveling to Venice, Italy, should book their stay and pagar to enter the city possibly as early as summer 2022, the Italian press reported this Saturday.

According to the newspaper Económico, a visit to Venice, which will be the first city in the world with paid admission and subject to reservation, can cost between three and ten euros, depending on the day and the number of people expected, according to the Italian press.

Residents of the Venice region will not pay, although it is not excluded that they are required to book a visit, except for children under six years old, relatives of residents up to the third degree, and relatives of people renting homes in the municipality.

Booking will be done through an app or on the web, with a QR code that will be used through optical turnstile readers, part of a technological system that includes more than 500 high-definition cameras that law enforcement used during the G20 Economy in July and a hundred sensors via smartphones that connect the mobile networks of those in the city.

Testing begins in September on the island of Tronchetto, where the local police command is located and where the entire territory is digitally controlled.

In the first ten days of August people from 136 different countries arrived in Venice, with peaks of 85,000 visitors on August 5 and 80,000 on August 18, while on the remaining days between 50 and 60,000 were quantified, although still far from the pre-pandemic numbers, when the summer average was 110,000 daily visitors, according to Il Corriere della Sera.

The charge has generated controversy, with many considering it "an unconstitutional measure and contrary to European legislation," such as councilor Marco Gasparinetti, for whom something like this "could be done for a limited area, such as St. Mark's Square, but not for an entire city, and presupposes the consecration" of Venice as a theme park.

"The measure that could come into effect as of summer 2022 does not serve to schedule the flows, it is just a way to make money. And we Venetians are going to disobey, because we have no intention of letting ourselves be registered in our passage through the turnstiles," stated La Stampa.