UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee is debating whether to designate Venice and its lagoon environment as an endangered world heritage site due to over-tourism alongside its steady decline in population and poor governance.
’s ban on massive cruise ships traveling through the city's historic center. Preservation groups immediately criticized the decision by UNESCO's World Heritage Committee.
Italian Culture Minister Dario Franceschini welcomed UNESCO's decision and credited the government's recent move to ban ships over 25,000 tons from Venice waterways facing St. Mark's Basilica and the Doges Palace. The groups also said the temporary decision to moor cruise ships in the industrial port of Marghera still endangers the lagoon and that no long-term plans have been made yet to manage ships and tourism in the city.
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