Do you think China’s attraction ticket prices are reasonable? How are they priced?

Do you think the ticket prices for attractions in China are reasonable? How are they priced?

I think the pricing of tickets for scenic spots in China is unreasonable, and the country should set standards for pricing tickets for scenic spots. This standard cannot be just a guiding reference. It should be a hard and fast rule. Once you violate it, you will be punished and demoted. The purpose of this is to prevent places from "raising the price for the scenery" and "eating on the scenery", turning it into an aristocratic scenic spot and making it unaffordable for ordinary people to visit.

Scenic area tickets should not be local fiscal revenue, but the wages and maintenance costs of internal staff in the scenic area. Calculated based on my country's current tourist population, it can be reduced by more than half. Local finance can completely rely on the population flow caused by tourism. Because food, housing and transportation can drive up consumption. Don’t rely on the basket sale of scenic spot tickets. We should keep the flow steady and leave more outlets for future generations.

Many scenic spots require high investment costs in construction. It is normal to invest hundreds of millions or more, plus the subsequent maintenance and operation costs. As a result, scenic spots often set ticket prices very high, but because of the high prices, the scenic spots do not have much characteristics. As a result, fewer people go to scenic spots, and naturally they lose money and are even less willing to lower prices, thus creating a vicious cycle. Many scenic spots are usually empty of people in twos and threes.

In order to recover costs as early as possible, some scenic spots even use sightseeing cars and other secondary charges in the scenic spots. These behaviors of robbing customers at exorbitant prices are basically equivalent to killing the goose that lays the eggs. It can only be said that the managers of these scenic spots are too narrow-minded and only rely on ticket sales to make profits. In contrast, there are some scenic spots with very low ticket prices, which mainly use the consumption of tourists to make profits.

For example, scenic spots such as Wuyue Village in Shijiazhuang have many preferential policies for tickets. Every summer, many locals come here to stay and escape the heat. We have been there several times. Although the scenic spot is not big and not very famous, it is crowded and lively every year. Scenic spots are basically self-operated, and the state will not uniformly limit ticket prices, because Chinese scenic spots are often different from some foreign scenic spots, such as ancient buildings or natural scenic spots, and do not require such high upfront investment in construction costs.

There are too many man-made scenic spots in China now. It is normal to invest huge amounts and spend billions. However, often such scenic spots do not have much characteristics and can only rely on some glass plank ropeways and the like inside. Yes, but if you play it too much, no one will want to play it anymore.