Looks down upon the scenery 11 eve domestic scenic areas raise the price

Approaches 11 gold weeks, Sichuan, Guizhou, Tianjin, Yunnan, Anhui and other places many scenic spot admission tickets rises in prices in abundance, increase scope some achieve 70%. This is since this year the domestic scenic area for the first time massively raises the price, was Development and Planning Commission and other departments issued last year “after limiting rising command” due another round rising in prices unrest.

The tourist scenic zone rises in prices to spoil the fun, although the relevant authority has given the sufficient rising in prices reason, the tourist still felt discontented. Does the scenic area admission ticket rise in prices should? Behind this round adjusts prices is or protects by advantage? The scenic area develops should insist that the public welfare does commercialize?

How many scenic spot impulsions do raise the price?

On August 27, state development and reform commission as follows, clearly stipulated that the scenic site do not concentrate the upward ticket price before the National Day. Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Jiangsu, Hunan and other places also in abundance pledged that during 11, scenic sites do not rise in prices. But, some scenic areas still “up-wind rose”, some scenic areas ferment the rising in prices strength to retard the post-holiday.

On August 31, Kunming Development and Planning Commission entrusted the hoodoo county to send changes the bureau organization to hold the public hearing, planned to adjust the hoodoo scenic area ticket price, by 140 Yuan rises for each people of 200 Yuan, the increase scope achieved 40%. Anhui Mt. Tianzhu admission ticket will have held the adjusting prices public hearing in the near future, the busy season admission ticket possibly from 120 Yuan adjustments to 150 Yuan; The Guangde County price bureau holds the public hearing in early September, the national 4A scenic area Taijidong ticket price adjusts by 60 Yuan for the busy season 90 Yuan.

During this year 51, had many scenic areas unable to repress rises in prices the impulsion. The Mt. Huangshan scenic area the ticket price by 200 Yuan upwards to 230 Yuan, since this year this round rising in prices wind was only the recent years scenic site competition competes to rise in prices a miniature.

For the standard tour visit ticket price supervisory work, Development and Planning Commission 4 times sends out successively about further completes the tour visit ticket price supervisory work the notice. However, “limits rising command” not to be effective, the scenic area consistently walks in “rising in prices” on road.

Difficult to receive “the heaviness of cost”?

The scenic spot rising in prices reason nothing else but is to make up the protection unmet need and repayment of debt, the control current capacity and so on, but these reasons can stand firmly by no means completely.

First, to make up protection unmet need. The Huangshan pricing department provides public hearing material demonstrated that Mt. Huangshan scenic spot from 2006 to 2008 admission ticket accumulated income 1.12 billion Yuan. During 3 years, the Mt. Huangshan scenic spot puts into heritage preservation, environmental protection, scenic area development, infrastructure and other construction funds to amount to 1.854 billion Yuan, the scenic area is unable to withstand the heaviness of protection cost.

However, the scenic area is used in resources conservation the expenditure being limited truly. Looking from the surface, each big scenic spot frequently one year several billions Yuan ticket incomes, but this great sum of money must suffer “being greedy”: The traveling Group keeps a part, a turning in profits part, the government takes away a part, truly uses on the scenic area resources conservation knife edge the funds to be few. Mt. Huangshan only then about 1/10 ticket incomes serve as the scenic area to protect every year; Yunnan hoodoo scenic area in 2008 ticket income nearly 300 million Yuan, but is used in the scenic area daily resources conservation the disbursement is only about 30 million Yuan.

Even if so, some scenic areas must put out major part funds “to raise human”. Some domestic famous attraction only then several hundred staffs, increase in the early 1990s now to more than 6000 people. The hoodoo scenic area from 2006 to 2008 from three years the ticket income had 900 million Yuan, the staff outlay and day-to-day overhead have occupied nearly one-third.

Second, scenic area being heavily in debt question. Hoodoo scenic spot area administrative bureau Li Zhengping said that the scenic area construction needs the massive funding, to restore the scenic area original condition, constructed in the scenic area administrative bureau office building, the guesthouse in the relocation expense reaches as high as 400 million Yuan. Other day, hoodoo administrative bureau applied for 500 million Yuan loans to the Import and Export Bank of China, applied for 500 million Yuan loans to Yunnan rich Yunnan bank.

The removal cost and construction which emphasized regarding the scenic area caused the debt problem, Beijing University world heritage Research Center Director Professor Xie Ninggao said that resumed the scenic area original condition investment is necessary, but if suitable part cost was the scenic area dislocation development causes the appearance change, cannot let the tourist pay. “It is a pity, some scenic spots have not drawn the lesson, after Shen Yi succeeds, continue private to build construct randomly, even betrays the land in disguised form, some industry segments and place unit concerned move into scenic spot ` to cede territory in abundance open a shop’, some scenic spots reach 70-80 buildings.”

Third, the scenic area rises in prices to be possible “retreating in fear” stream of people. From Shanxi’s tourist Du Xiaosong thinks that this reason is very absurd, if must limit the scenic area current capacity, definitely may the method which or registers through lining up ahead of time.

“Our country scenic spot current ticket price and incomes are not symmetric. The overseas many scenic spots are free, even if collects fees is also very low.”Xie Ninggao said that an American nation country park’s general yearly pass has 50 US dollars, the South Korean scenic spot ticket price in 7 Yuan to 20 Yuan, Italian most expensive scenic spot ticket price is also generally insufficient their average per person month income 1%.

“Only rises in prices” unable to trade the benefit

The scenic spot rises in prices to incur the tourist to be discontented constantly.

Professor Xie Ninggao once had toured dozens country’s famed scenery, he discovered that many countries take the investment of windward scenic area, the US give out the funds which country park’s funds as well as the social group donate to have 4 billion US dollars every year, not only but our country to the investment of national 187 country scenic spot less than 20 million Yuan, some local authorities does not invest every year, but also uses the scenic area income to fill the financing gap.

“Only rises in prices” unable to trade the benefit. Anhui mountain peak traveling research center researcher Sheng Xuefeng believes that the scenic spot cannot in developing the scenic area obtains without labor the traveling simple approval the admission ticket, it leads the dining, lodging, culture and other service industries “yeast industry”. Hangzhou’s Xihu scenic area implements free opening, not having fence’s Xihu has given back to the tourist. Freely “owing” several ten million Yuan ticket incomes, but the tourist actually gave this city to bring over a billion Yuan comprehensive incomes. (This article originates: Metropolis bulletin)