Venice municipal workers in reflective vests outside of the Venezia Santa Lucia train station to assist visitors with a new entrance fee that day-trippers must pay. Photo Credit: Nicole Edenedo VENICE ...

ROME -- It's about to get just a little bit quieter in Venice -- at least that's the hope of the city council, which has banned tour guides from using megaphones and limited the groups to 25 people.

Venice is taking on group tours and loudspeakers as part of its overall framework toward combating mass tourism. Starting Thursday in Venice, group tours won’t be able to exceed 25 people and guides ...

Venice — one of the world’s most oversubscribed tourist destinations — could soon get a lot less crowded. On Saturday, Italian officials announced measures to limit large tourist groups in the ...

Capping tour group sizes may help mitigate overcrowding in Venice. But the city needs to do more. Venice authorities are limiting the size of large guided tour groups. Over the weekend, the municipal ...

There was a time when a perfunctory potter round the key sites with a dusty guide serviced by an even dustier script was the summit of our city-tour ambitions. Now, driven by a new breed of innovative ...

Fun Fact: Murano glassblowing was once so sacred that a law introduced in 1295 prevented glassmakers from leaving the island. Government officials feared local glassblowing secrets would be leaked to ...