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Paulo Costa
Overtourism in Venice has long posed a threat to the ‘functioning’ of the part of Civitas located in the historic Urbs. Today, it has taken the form of a more serious threat to the ‘structure’ and vitality of the entire Venetian Civitas: the one that has expanded in the modern age ‘beyond the walls’ of the waters of the lagoon. Overtourism has displaced and is crowding out both residents and non-tourism jobs in historic Venice. The fight against overtourism may adopt one of two strategies: to take full advantage of a historic Venice reduced to a productive district of tourism only (max 90–100,000 visitors per day) or to combine tourism with both ‘antibiotic’ (max 50–60,000 visitors per day) and ‘probiotic’ measures such as reinvigorating the maritime port activities that have made the Serenissima a great power
