Fencing is for the safety of tourists, and the fence at the edge of the Jiulong Waterfall Group Road in Yunnan blocks the scenery! Scenic Area: Closed management and allocation of resources and fences since its development

The fence along the highway is shown in the video screenshot

On July 1st, a netizen posted that the Jiulong Waterfall Scenic Area in Luoping County, Qujing City, Yunnan Province was also blocked by fences along the road. In response to this, the staff of the scenic area responded to Red Star News reporters that the scenic area belongs to a natural scenic area and has been under closed management since its development. The area below the road belongs to the scenic area, and the fence does not occupy the road. It is for the safety of tourists.

Regarding the recent emergence of "fence blocking" in many scenic spots and the controversy it has sparked, Wang Xiaoyu, an expert from the World Tourism Cities Federation, said that on the surface, "fence blocking" appears to be a lagging thinking mode of administrative resource allocation and a short-term financial behavior of resource monetization. However, the underlying logic is that the development and operation entities of scenic spots lack innovation awareness and ability, and lack professional ability to allocate resources in the market. They can only rely on administrative resource allocation to solve the problem.

Wang Xiaoyu believes that in order to meet the new cultural and tourism needs of a consumer oriented society, future scenic spots should, on the basis of providing good public services, play an innovative spirit, and provide richer and more diverse cultural and tourism integration products around diverse and refined consumption needs.

Netizens exposed:

Build fences along the highway to block the Kowloon Waterfall Group

Scenic Area: Always under closed management, fences are for the safety of tourists

According to videos posted by netizens, on the side of a highway, in addition to steel isolation guardrails and cement anti-collision piers, there is also a row of high green fences with a warning sign hanging on the fence, which reads "No climbing in Jiulong Falls Scenic Area". Through a slightly deformed and damaged fence board gap, the beautiful scenery is suddenly in front of us, and the waterfall landscape is startled.

Video screenshot of "peeping" at Kowloon Falls in the gap of the fence

The netizen joked that "someone has been reported to have peeped into the Jiulong Waterfall Scenic Area in Luoping County, Qujing City.". The video has attracted widespread attention and comments from netizens.

According to the official WeChat official account of the scenic spot, Luoping Jiulong Falls is a national AAAA tourist attraction, 22 kilometers north of Luoping County. Due to the unique geological structure and millennium erosion of water flow, a group of ten waterfalls with varying heights, widths, and shapes have been formed here. The largest one is 112 meters wide and 56 meters high, known as the "First Waterfall of Kowloon". The ticket price for the scenic area is 65 yuan/person, artificial bamboo raft is 25 yuan/person, and electric bamboo raft is 20 yuan/person.

On the morning of July 2nd, staff members of the Luoping Jiulong Waterfall Scenic Area responded to Red Star News reporters that the scenic area is a natural scenic area and has been under closed management since its development in 1998. The scenic area has normal entrances and exits, and tickets can be purchased from the east and west gates to view all 10 waterfalls.

For the fence along the road, the staff stated that it does not occupy the road, and the area below the road belongs to the scenic area. The fence is for the safety of tourists, and many natural scenic spots also do the same.

Expert opinions:

Short sighted resource monetization behavior

Public resources should be shared by the people

Previously, a 360 kilometer iron wire mesh was built around Qinghai Lake, a wall was built along the Hukou Waterfall of the Yellow River, and a wall was built next to the Feilai Temple on the Meili Snow Mountain and the Jinsha River Grand Bay scenic spots on the national road. Recently, "fence blocking scenery" has frequently attracted the attention of netizens.

Red Star News reporters found that on June 26th, the operating company of Meili Snow Mountain Scenic Area stated that it will sincerely carry out rectification work and implement free access to the two scenic spots, Feilai Temple and Jinsha River Bay. On July 1st, a netizen filmed a video revealing that the walls along the Huanghe Hukou Waterfall Tourist Area had been demolished.

In this regard, @ Wang Xiaoyu alain, an expert of the World Federation of Tourism cities and a special researcher of the Tourism Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes that on the surface, "wall blocking the scenery" is a lagging thinking mode of administrative allocation of resources and a short-term financial behavior of short-sighted resource realization, while the underlying logic is the lack of innovation consciousness, innovation ability and professional ability of market allocation of resources, can only rely on administrative allocation of resources to solve the problem.

Wang Xiaoyu said that China's socio-economic development has entered a post high-speed growth stage, which has put forward new requirements for the cultural and tourism market, namely, the quality of sightseeing tourism, the theme, experience, and diversification of leisure and vacation tourism. Traditional scenic spots, due to their lack of awareness and ability, and the logic of administrative resource allocation remaining unchanged, have resulted in a single product and lack of experience. In addition, they have strengthened short-term resource monetization, leading to behaviors that go against the market, such as "blocking the scenery with walls.".

"The sharing of public resources among the people should be the rightful thing, and the free opening of the Feilai Temple in Meili Snow Mountain and the Jinsha River Bay in Yunnan Province is a reflection of this." Wang Xiaoyu believes that in order to adapt to the new cultural and tourism needs of the consumer oriented society in the post high-speed growth stage, many tourist attractions in the future should also play to the innovative spirit of the main entrepreneurs in the scenic area, and provide cultural and tourism integration products with better quality, more refined experience, and rich and diverse content around diverse and refined consumption needs, while providing good public services.

Wang Xiaoyu stated that the public resource attributes of Europe and America, such as national parks, are gradually becoming more layered and refined with the development of social and economic factors, such as camping, RVs, study tours, rock climbing, hiking, and other supporting products and experiential activities. The themes are diverse, and China's future scenic spots will also develop in this direction, that is, on the basis of protection, rational development, enriching education, entertainment and other products and experiential content.