Venice gondola tours restrict capacity due to ‘overweight’ tourists – By Vincent Barone (New York Post) / July 21 2020
Maybe they should cut down on the pasta.
Venice gondola tours are reducing capacity on their boats because of too many overweight tourists, the Guardian reported Tuesday.
The smaller boats running through the city’s charming canals have reduced capacity from six to five people. While the larger boats used to cross the Grand Canal have dropped its maximum from 14 to 12 passengers, Venice’s gondoliers association told the outlet.
“It’s true that compared to 10 or 15 years ago, tourists weigh a bit more,” Andrea Balbi, president of the association said. “Unlike in a lift, where there’s a message that says ‘only six people or a maximum weight’, we don’t have scales to weigh people, and so we reduced the number of passengers.”
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