A steward checks tickets as tourists queue outside the Santa Lucia railway station in Venice, while 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)