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Italy To Tourists: Please Come Back — Just Don’t Climb All Over The Old Stuff, Okay?

ISSUES Posted: August 20, 2020 5:35 am

A German couple going swimming in the Grand Canal. An Austrian breaking the toe off a statue when he climbed on it for a selfie. A French woman writing her name in felt-tip pen on the Ponte Vecchio. A woman posing for a selfie on top of 2,000-year-old thermal baths in Pompeii. Italians badly want to revive the all-important tourism industry in the wake of COVID, yes, but not if tourists vandalize. But which will be more effective, education or harsher punishment? – The New York Times

ISSUES Published: 08.19.20

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