An extensive operation to remove so-called key boxes began in Rome on Wednesday: these are the key boxes used by managers of tourist accommodations to allow customers who have booked their stay online to enter the apartment directly with a code and without meeting the manager. Fifteen workers and 20 traffic policemen will be deployed in the operation for a month, Monday through Friday, tasked with removing all key boxes placed both outside private homes and in public spaces (in Rome they are placed just about everywhere, even on streetlights or benches). Key boxes have become a kind of symbol of mass tourism, and of the negative consequences the phenomenon has on cities and those who live there. They make it possible to circumvent the obligation to register the names of those who take possession of a room, an obligation that hotels must comply with instead.