{"id":1353,"date":"2009-03-31T06:27:53","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T13:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2013-04-27T06:32:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T13:32:16","slug":"many-italian-tourist-attractions-are-getting-more-savvy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2009\/03\/31\/many-italian-tourist-attractions-are-getting-more-savvy\/","title":{"rendered":"Many Italian tourist attractions are getting more savvy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We’ve been traveling to Italy for years (my first trip was 9 years ago).\u00c2\u00a0 We’ve noticed that tourist attractions are getting more savvy.<\/p>\n

For example, most churches and museums no longer allow photography inside, but they have nice full-color books available for purchase (when they don’t have a book they should allow photography – pet peeve, and this is becoming more common).\u00c2\u00a0 Many have instituted admission charges as well.<\/p>\n

There’s also more guidance for tourists; more signs in more languages, and in some cases volunteer docents hang around to engage people (we had a very pleasant experience at Santa Croce<\/a>, for example).<\/p>\n

One thing that hasn’t improved is the handling of crowds – streets are too narrow and roped areas to await entry are often too short, so the line spills out randomly.<\/p>\n

And, it all depends on how many tourists flock to the destination; for example, Bologna isn’t as tourist-friendly as, say, Florence, perhaps partly because its a college town.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We’ve been traveling to Italy for years (my first trip was 9 years ago).\u00c2\u00a0 We’ve noticed that tourist attractions are getting more savvy. For example, most churches and museums no longer allow photography inside, but they have nice full-color books available for purchase (when they don’t have a book they should allow photography – pet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[143],"tags":[60,2353],"class_list":["post-1353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-foreign","tag-florence","tag-italy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t