Claiming a 99% success rate in ticket grabbing is too difficult! Online ticket booking with a price of 280 yuan. I would like to visit the Forbidden City in Beijing during the summer vacation | Ticket | The Forbidden City in Beijing
The Palace Museum and the National Museum in Beijing are unable to secure tickets, and tickets to the Shaanxi History Museum have been booked until the end of July. The Suzhou Museum also needs to make an appointment one week in advance... This summer, which has suppressed the unprecedented popularity of research tours for three years, whether parents take their children on trips or some research institutions charge fees, cultural and museum venues are considered a must visit, resulting in some popular venues being difficult to obtain a ticket.
The Jiefang Daily Shangguan News reporter also saw on the Internet platform that on the one hand, tickets for popular venues were not available, and on the other hand, some institutions had turned "ticket booking" into a business: the original 60 yuan ticket for the Beijing Palace Museum was up to 280 yuan; The originally free National Museum has a ticket price of up to 158 yuan for proxy bookings. On the Internet, the popular Shaanxi History Museum also has many institutions hanging out "tickets+explanation" premium products.
The Forbidden City ticket is priced at 280 yuan, claiming a "99% success rate in ticket grabbing"
"Only three classmates in my daughter's class have never been to Beijing, so we need to find time to take her there." This summer, Mr. Chen, a citizen, included Beijing in his family travel plan and also wanted to take his daughter to visit the Forbidden City. Mr. Xu, who has two boys at home, also plans to visit Beijing with his family and includes the Palace Museum, National Museum, and Summer Palace in his visit plan.
However, Mr. Xu discovered during his strategy that the probability of getting tickets to the Beijing Palace Museum was extremely low. This museum, which requires a week's advance reservation and a daily flow limit of 30000 yuan, has become too popular this summer! Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many primary and secondary school students were unable to travel long distances in the previous three years. This summer, a considerable portion of the research and study tours targeted Beijing, which is rich in cultural and tourism resources. The Palace Museum is also a must visit attraction, and the daily quota of 30000 people is simply not enough.
The ticket of the Palace Museum at a price of 60 yuan could not be obtained, but the signboard of "booking tickets on behalf of others" was put up on the Internet platform, but the price at least doubled. Input "tickets of the Palace Museum" on an Internet platform, and the relevant products that pop up on the page range from tens to hundreds of yuan. Some sell tickets of the Palace Museum alone, some only provide explanations, and there are combination products of "tickets+explanations".
The reporter selected three sellers to inquire about related products and found that they all displayed a combination of "tickets+explanations", but the actual sales content was not the same. As for one of the sellers who wrote "Palace Museum Ticket+Mobile Voice Explanation", customer service said that the price of 158 yuan only includes Palace Museum ticket booking without explanation, and they need to make an appointment one week in advance, with a success rate of 90% in ticket grabbing; A seller with a price tag of 280 yuan, their customer service representative also stated that the price only includes tickets to the Forbidden City, with a 99% success rate in ticket grabbing. Tourists need to provide their phone number and ID information in advance. Another seller who listed a 4-6 hour in-depth tour of the Forbidden City at a price of 980 yuan said that the product only includes tour services and does not include ticket booking. Tourists need to book tickets themselves.
Ticket booking service for Beijing Forbidden City on the Internet
A similar situation exists in the National Museum, which has abundant collection resources. At present, the National Museum implements free reservation, but many tourists have reported that snatching tickets for the National Museum is also a "hard" model, even familiar local visitors in Beijing lament that they cannot make reservations. However, on the Internet platform, there are also sellers who order tickets for the National Expo at the price of 158 yuan.
The Shaanxi History Museum, which has been popular for several years, has scheduled an appointment for July 26th today, but there are also a combination of "ticket+explanation" products for sale online, all priced at over 100 yuan. In contrast, Suzhou Museum can make reservations one week in advance, while Shanghai Museum, which is hosting the "Empirical China: Songze Liangzhu Civilization Archaeological Exhibition", can make reservations for admission in 5-6 days, which is relatively relaxed among popular venues.
Tourists roast in the message area of the National Expo
The National Museum has taken action to clean up virtual numbers and register accounts
In fact, with the rise of cultural and museum tourism in recent years, it has been difficult to book tickets for popular museums. As early as 2008, the then National Cutural Heritage Administration required that all museums and provincial comprehensive museums under the centralized management of the central cultural and heritage departments be open to the public free of charge. After 2020, most museums have adopted the method of online advance booking to distribute tickets, leading to a situation where it is difficult to obtain tickets for popular museums.
The originally free and affordable tickets cannot be obtained, which means that ordinary tourists who want to visit high-quality "national treasure level" museums need to pay much higher costs. For example, when a family of three went to the Forbidden City, the ticket for three adults was only 180 yuan. According to the ticket price on the Internet, the ticket cost of a family of three was as high as 474 yuan to 840 yuan, with a staggering increase. Many tourists also roast that "they can't compete with those scalpers who rob tickets!"
An industry insider who has designed appointment systems for multiple museums said that some popular museums may seem difficult to obtain a ticket on the surface, but there is a lot of truth behind it. If scalpers use a large amount of ID information and illegal reservation software to instantly grab a batch of museum tickets and release them in batches; Under the real name system, "scalpers" obtain tourist information in advance through pre-sale, and use tourists' ID number numbers and mobile phone numbers to book tickets; Some scalpers also use virtual phone numbers to grab tickets, and then lock in spots through ticket refunds and re grabbing. "For example, if someone makes appointments over 1000 times a month and then frequently returns them, it is obviously not in line with normal people's usage habits. Using big data to find such users, marking them, and coordinating with the public security department will have a certain effect."
Today, the Shanghai Museum can still make reservations for next Wednesday and Thursday's visiting spots
Some popular cultural and museum venues are also constantly taking measures against the phenomenon of "scalpers" robbing tickets that tourists roast about. This morning, the National Museum issued a targeted "Appointment Notice". The "Appointment Notice" states: "Full staff real name free appointment for visits", "Real name registration mobile phone number must be used for appointment, each account can make up to 5 appointments per visit day, and each ID number can only make appointments once a day. Relevant accounts registered using virtual mobile phone numbers will be cleared in a timely manner, and relevant appointments will be cancelled", "If the appointment account fails to fulfill the contract three times, the account will be restricted from making appointments for 30 days", etc. Among them, real name reservation, clearing accounts registered using virtual phone numbers, and restricting unfulfilled accounts are precise strikes against scalpers engaged in ticket speculation.
The reporter noticed that the Shanghai Museum also has certain restrictions on visitors who make appointments, such as the requirement that "all visitors must present their original ID card or make an appointment to enter the museum with a QR code, and can only enter the museum after passing the gate verification", and "if the appointment is not cancelled and the appointment is missed twice, the account will not be eligible to make an appointment within 30 days of the second missed appointment". It is reported that currently, Shangbo offers 10000 reserved visiting spots every day, and during popular exhibitions, cancelled spots will be temporarily released for candidates to make reservations, in order to meet the needs of visitors as much as possible.
