{"id":8639,"date":"2023-09-16T14:47:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T14:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/16\/venice-not-at-risk-after-all-unesco-leaves-city-off-its-heritage-in-danger-list\/"},"modified":"2023-09-16T14:47:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T14:47:34","slug":"venice-not-at-risk-after-all-unesco-leaves-city-off-its-heritage-in-danger-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/16\/venice-not-at-risk-after-all-unesco-leaves-city-off-its-heritage-in-danger-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Venice \u2018not at risk\u2019 after all? UNESCO leaves city off its heritage in danger list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The Italian city of Venice and its lagoon were not listed on UNESCO\u2019s World Heritage in Danger list during a meeting of the UN agency in Saudi Arabia on Thursday, according to Italy\u2019s culture ministry.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The UNESCO World Heritage Committee had warned in July that Italy was not doing enough to protect the city from the threat of overtourism, development and climate change.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      It had recommended that it be added to its heritage in danger list. However, the vote on Thursday did not pass that recommendation, according to the culture ministry.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The Italian culture ministry welcomed the outcome of the UNESCO vote in Saudi Arabia, describing the attempt to register the city on the list as \u201cpurely political.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cGreat Victory at UNESCO\u2026Venice is not at risk,\u201d tweeted its mayor Luigi Brugnaro on Thursday.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The city has been in the headlines throughout the year, including when a green blob discolored the Grand Canal, and when there were arrests of badly behaved tourists.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Recently, as part of its strategy to control tourism, the city adopted an entrance fee of \u20ac5 for day-trippers starting next spring.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The fee will apply to those who are not in rental properties or hotels and will start as a 30-day experiment.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      After the decision, the World Heritage Committee said Venice still faces major challenges and asked Italy to continue to protect it.  <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian city of Venice and its lagoon were not listed on UNESCO\u2019s World Heritage in Danger list during a meeting of the UN agency in Saudi Arabia on Thursday, according to Italy\u2019s culture ministry. The UNESCO World Heritage Committee had warned in July that Italy was not doing enough to protect the city from <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}