Venice wants remote workers to boost its population

Overtourism is a serious issue in Venice, so local authorities are looking to attract a different set of travellers – employees who can officially work remotely. — AFP

Remote working’s large-scale rollout around the world has not only brought about a new way of thinking about how to organise one’s time and relationships with a company. Remote workers now constitute a new category of travellers, and it’s a category that Venice, Italy is interested in attracting to boost its population with a completely different profile of resident.

How would you feel about getting ready for your next meeting, not in an open space, but in the famous Piazza San Marco in Venice? The Serenissima is awaiting you. In fact it has even developed a digital platform to encourage digital nomads to choose it as their new remote office.