Venice is reinstating a tourist entry fee Friday after experimenting last year with charging people to enter the city during busy times to reduce congestion.

Venice has started charging day-trippers to the famed canal city an arrivals tax for the second year, in a measure aimed at combating the kind of overtourism that put the city’s UNESCO World Cultural

Opponents of the day-tripper fee say it has done nothing to discourage tourists from visiting Venice even on high-traffic days