This idyllic Italian fishing village popular with tourists has started charging a €1,000 photography fee
The Italian village of Positano, a famous photographic scene on the Tyrrhenian Sea, has decided to create a photographic permit fee of 1,000 Euros. This fee is applicable to all circumstances where a photograph is going to be used for commercial purposes, tourists and journalists are to be exempt from paying it. Because of the high amount of tourism through the town, the mayor proclaimed "Not everyone can be allowed to link their brand to Positano". This new fee is an example of policies that are now being put into place due to the spike in tourism and especially amatur and professional photography. This new policy has a two week application process and a 1000 Euro fee for photographs and a 2000 Euro fee for filming of commercial videos. The town, to be sure that this policy doesn't affect the tourism industry, has made tourists and journalists exempt, as well as any photos or videos that are taken for private, journalistic, of educational purposes; "We are also doing it to control the territory, because improvised film sets were blocking the passage of pedestrian in the town's key arteries".
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