Municipal workers of Venice, show information postcards with QR code to buy ticket for entering the city, in front of the Santa Lucia railway station as they wait to buy tickets, as visitors entering the UNESCO World Heritage site for one day have to buy a five-euro ($5.3) ticket, in Venice on 25 April 2024. Venice launched a new scheme to charge day-trippers for entering the historic Italian city, a world first intended to ease the pressure of mass tourism , but many residents are opposed, in Venice, on April 25, 2024. (Photo by MARCO BERTORELLO / AFP)