Rome (TAN): Tourists flocking to Sardinia’s La Pelosa beach will soon have to buy tickets to enter the famous beach as authorities aim to limit the number of visitors to tackle overcrowding, media reports said.
Situated on the Italian island of Sardinia, La Pelosa reportedly attracts thousands of visitors every summer, which inevitably puts pressure on the beach’s ecosystem. The council of Stintino, the closest town, has therefore decided to start a ticketing system and set a cap on visitor numbers to 1,500 a day during summer. Children will not be included in the count.
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We’re limiting numbers because the burden is too much. We need to safeguard it so that we can guarantee its life for the next 500 years. This is the most popular beach on Sardinia — everyone wants to come here. But it’s a very precarious geological equilibrium, so we’re doing this work to guarantee its future,” the mayor of Stintino, Antonio Diana, was quoted by CNN as saying.
Diana said visitor count on the beach can go up to 6,000 people per day.
“Six thousand people is not sustainable anymore,” he added.
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Price of tickets or how they will be dispensed have not yet been revealed.
“We don’t know how much the ticket will cost, but we think it’ll be around 4 euros (USD 4.41) per day. It’s ‘experimental’ because we need to work out the details but it’s a project that needs to last for years,” Diana was quoted by a report as saying.
The ticketing system will reportedly be introduced next summer.
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