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10 euro solution
It’s enough for the residents of Hallstatt. Your home community suffers from overtourism. That’s what they call it in New German when so many tourists visit a place that it’s far too much for the locals. Picturesque Dürnstein in the Wachau also struggles with crowds of tourists. On the one hand, this pleases hoteliers, innkeepers and business people who earn money with it – and annoys everyone else who wants to live here undisturbed. Desperate solutions are being sought to regulate and curb the influx. A model could be Venice, where an entry fee is planned, the implementation of which is repeatedly postponed. The question is how high this would have to be in order to have a regulating effect. What is certain is that a visit to the world heritage site can be worth something.
Unrealistic
Close the barriers, get the money, open the barriers. But only if you have reserved. And when it’s full, you have to wait – in front of the entrance to the town. The best way to shorten the waiting time is to see a musically accompanied occupancy rate display (via the app on your cell phone, of course) in green (get in quickly before the others do), yellow (in a moment, photos are still being taken) and red (everything full, please go to Venice). For the locals there is of course a Hallstatt annual ticket (perhaps in combination with the replicated place in southern China?). With all love, but: No. Who should control that? Does an Ebensee resident visiting a Hallstatt resident then have to buy a ticket? What if he doesn’t get any more? Then the friendship ends.
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