Florence is stepping up its fight against mass tourism by ordering vacation rental owners to remove self check-in keyboxes by today, February 25. The latest restriction aims to curb the rapid rise ...

Florence's local government has ordered owners of holiday rental properties to remove self check-in keyboxes by February 25 in a move against over-tourism in the Italian Renaissance city.

Florence has long been fighting short-term rentals According to the national statistics office ISTAT, Italy was visited by a record 134 million tourists in 2023, and 451 million people stayed in ...

Such stories are becoming more common in Florence, shedding light on the influence of mass tourism on this beautiful Italian city. Florence's city center, a UNESCO site, has become a popular for ...

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This was because Italy only emerged as a unified nation much later in its history with the Kingdom of Italy being officially proclaimed in 1861 and making Florence the capital of Italy.

Right now, he says the keyboxes are ‘everywhere, on the bicycle racks and on the street-light poles … Florence is dying of uncontrolled tourism.’ But not for much longer: the Mayor of ...

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