Tourists in Italy are behaving badly this year: Here’s why

CNN — Swimming in UNESCO-protected canals. People buy it from places with no seating, they look around for where to sit and the first thing they find is the monuments.” In 2021, Schmidt called for fast food businesses to be taxed higher than places that have seating and toilets for guests, but a year later, he told CNN, “Nothing has happened, none of the politicians want to enter the debate.” ‘People steal gondolas’ In May, an Italian visitor permanently damaged the Redentore church with graffiti. While Zarantonello doesn’t think it’s been made worse by the pandemic, Schmidt suggested last year: “It’s your first trip in two years, you’re young and not allowed alcohol in your home country, you’re here for the first time and you might engage in behavior you’d be ashamed of at home.” ‘A by product of the sheer volume of visitors’ In June, two Americans threw their scooters down the Spanish Steps, damaging the monument. “Italy is peculiar in the wealth of tourism features the country has, and it’s unique in that people occupy these spaces in a way that doesn’t occur in many countries,” he says. “I think what we’re watching is a byproduct of the sheer volume of visitors – and the appalling behavior of a fraction of the total number,” he says.