Especially around spring and early summer time there is an infinite demand on accommodation and to cover that as best as the Florentines can they respond with the high portion of two- to three star hotels in the mid-range price class to get the most out of it. Tourism in Florence has become so massive that even the price of ice cream would change proportionally from month to month and sometimes even from day to day depending from what country the current customer is from. I actually witnessed a situation where a group of Japanese tourist had to pay a higher price for a scoop of ice cream than the local Italian further down the queue.