Resolutely crack down on illegal tour groups and "scalpers" to scalp tickets. Beijing is expected to receive 12.83 million tourists during the "Double Festival" holiday
Today, reporters learned from the press conference on tourism supply and safety service guarantees for the 2023 Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays held by the Information Office of the Beijing Municipal Government that according to online platform booking forecast data, Beijing is the most popular domestic tourism destination during the "Double Festival" holiday. local city. Beijing is expected to receive 12.83 million tourists, a year-on-year increase of 60.8% on a comparable basis and a 21.9% increase over the same period in 2019.
The total number of tourists received by various scenic spots in Beijing will far exceed the overall level in 2019. It is expected that October 1st to 3rd will be the peak period for scenic spots to receive tourists, with more than 3.2 million tourists per day, and the peak reception day will be October 2, which will reach 3.4 million tourists.
Zhou Weimin, a first-level inspector of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, introduced that this summer’s popular scenic spots, museums, science and technology museums, universities and open-to-public units that are “hard to get a ticket” will meet the needs of tourists during the “Double Festival” holiday to the greatest extent. , before the festival, we once again scientifically calculated and judged our daily maximum carrying capacity and instantaneous maximum carrying capacity. On the premise of ensuring safety and tourist experience, we humanely adjusted the daily ticket release time and scientifically increased the daily reception service volume. , the opening hours have been appropriately extended, and night tour services have been provided for tourists if possible. These measures will alleviate the contradiction between supply and demand of service reception to a certain extent.
He reminded citizens and tourists to be wary of false advertising promises online to attract customers. We are highly vigilant about the illegal solicitation of a small number of travel agencies on online platforms under the guise of reserving tickets to popular scenic spots, museums, science and technology museums and famous universities, zero shopping, free tickets, free gifts, etc. This is actually false advertising and false advertising through the front end online. Promise to attract customers and induce customers to form groups at low prices. After the group is formed, these unscrupulous travel agencies change the itinerary and add self-funded items without authorization because they cannot fulfill their promises, do not fulfill the travel contract, organize unreasonable low-price tours, illegal "one-day tours", illegal "senior group tours", etc., causing tourists to be deceived and causing complaints. and public opinion.
He said that when citizens and tourists sign up for group tours, please do not participate in groups that falsely promote promises on the platform or groups that violate laws and regulations online through WeChat Weibo, community WeChat groups, etc.
Zhou Weimin said that due to the contradiction between supply and demand for tickets to popular scenic spots and units open to the public during the holidays, the behavior of grabbing tickets on behalf of others, reselling tickets at increased prices, and illegally conducting "ticket explanation" business may rebound, seriously damaging the consumer rights of tourists and spectators, and disrupting the market. Improved the order of the capital’s tourism ticketing market. Therefore, we must resolutely crack down on "scalpers" who disrupt the order of the hot tourist ticketing market.
At the same time, popular scenic spots and units open to the outside world will continue to strengthen the iterative upgrade of ticketing system technology to prevent scalpers from using software to steal tickets and effectively improve the tourist ticket purchasing experience.
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