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Q: Why doesn't China have measures to limit tourist numbers at attractions during national holidays?
I'm going to make a bold statement: the fact that there seems to be no cap on the number of people let in or on major tourist attractions in China reflects their disregard towards the attraction in question and clearly shows that their sole motive is money. Certain sites are ancient and have historical and cultural value. When 100,000 people are let in all at the same time, you are risking damage to the site and you are also putting the safety of tourists at risk. What will it take for China to control tourist numbers on the Great Wall, Forbidden City and all the other attractions during national holidays? A stampede whereby hundreds get injured or die? Seriously!
10 years 29 weeks ago in Health & Safety - China
The Chinese public is let to fend for itself with no regulation from the rulers. No one cares about the Chinese.
Further than what you say, it also completely removes any possible enjoyment from going to an attraction.
A major stampede with a horde of injured and dead would not do it i'm afraid. But if an important official on whatever board makes such decisions has a nephew twist his ankle on one of the steps.......'then', you 'might' see some changes. In the meantime.....k'ching!
its probably because the same reason why they put 500 people in a bus/train when its clearly said the limit is 100, because no one caree?!
If they impose limits on people going to the tourist attraction imagine the people outside they would start a riot, jump fences and everything in between.
That is the problem when everybody is traveling at the same time of year. It is rare to find someone traveling outside the holiday week or long weekends.
Moonlake:
That means that the only solution is to rethink the national holidays system then.
Scandinavian:
@brisguy. Imagine if e.g things like "planning ahead" was introduced. Let's say you have a super popular park with Panda's. Because the furry friends need some quiet time, only 5000 visitors are allowed per day. Instead of refusing people at the gate you require people buying access ticket for a specific day/time ahead of their visit, unless they want to chance it and get refused at the door.
@moonlake. the Chinese holiday system is hopeless. Having 1.3 billion people all have vacation is just never going to work. The original idea behind the golden weeks was to boots consumerism, but it's not really working. The problem is that in China, people are not free, no control over their own life. In my old job back home I would each year have 10 or so public holidays, e.g some for xmas, new years, easter etc. much like how China has the public holidays. Unlike China I would not need to work weekends to catch up. Further than that, I would each year have 30 days I could use whenever I wanted to. Both public and private holidays are with pay.
Now, if China wants to be a modern country. Treating the people like slaves is not going to work forever. Let people decide when and where they want to go.
brisguy:
imposing ticket limits are great if they can be controlled. The Gov needs to ensure and enforce that tickets will not be sold at premium prices.
Scandinavian:
naturally ticket limits equals people selling tickets at higher price. Heck, here in town we have a park with a 120 entrance fee, you can group-buy tickets online and get them for 100, there are people selling group bought tickets outside the entrance for 110.
lack of enforcement is the mother of all problems in China
expatlife26:
I think you're right. That's the problem with China in general. Everybody wants to do the same thing at once. Oddly enough china isn't even in the top 25 most crowded countries! UK is way more crowded it's just UK people don't have that herd mentality.
Scandinavian:
If you meassure how crowded a country is by people/area, then to make it fair for China you have to substract the regions that are not inhabitable (e.g. mountains, desserts, polluted industrial wastelands) All of Britain is just a nice green cushion where there is a piece of grass for everyone to sit on. (under an umbrella I guess)
On the people/area side, countries like UK, Denmark and Germany are way higher than China. Vatican City is pretty high up the list too and they also suffer from some dark ages thinking resulting in herd mentality at certain times per year.
Modern society = free people = no herding
expatlife26:
@Scandinavian. Agreed with the lack of enforcement thing too. I dunno if it's possible to enforce things though. All of the 'rules' that make the west a nicer place than china are predicated on at least a LITTLE bit of willingness for people to play ball with the system. People here are just too selfish and their time too cheap for any enforcement system to work. For example if this was a normal country they could make it so you could only buy one ticket per ID number and deter 95% of scalpers. For some unemployed loser migrant worker, he doesn't give a shit about society as a whole and he's willing to put in days of work having other people buy tickets and cutting them in so he can make $100 in profit for the month.
the main problem is that they only have time to travel during national day and new year thats because they dont have much other holidays (i think 5 days free to spend if you start a job)
It do have measures but generally it's not effective
