Yes, but being maxed at hotel capacity wasn't solving the the overcrowding problem. It was just pushing tourists further out of the city. It would be like tryin

Yes, but being maxed at hotel capacity wasn't solving the the overcrowding problem. It was just pushing tourists further out of the city. It would be like trying to solve traffic in San Francisco by freezing housing construction - it just spreads the problem out over a larger area. Here is a NY Times article from 1987 talking about the overcrowding problem and limiting the number of tourists in Venice. https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/08/world/venice-moves-to-limit-entrance-of-tourists.html?searchResultPosition=1 https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/08/world/venice-moves-to-lim...