What is the "full" summer college tour doing?

Recently, the news that a university in Sichuan will build a 3A scenic spot has aroused social concern. However, after Beijing, Tsinghua and Peking University implemented the management method of visiting the campus in summer, tourists were full every day, resulting in a long queue of 100 meters outside the school gate.

Why is the university tour so popular? How to deal with the conflict between maintaining the teaching environment and opening to tourists? Is it blocked or sparse for colleges and universities to face the endless stream of tourists?

In July this year, official website of Sichuan Vocational and Technical College of Industry and Commerce posted the "Comparative Announcement on the Collection of Planning Schemes for 3A Scenic Spot in Sichuan Vocational and Technical College Campus", which was interpreted by some media as aiming to turn the school into a 3A scenic spot, and immediately triggered a hot discussion among netizens.

Faced with a series of questions such as whether colleges and universities should become scenic spots and whether campuses should become tourist destinations, a reporter recently called Wan, director of the Propaganda Department of the Party Committee of Sichuan Vocational and Technical College of Industry and Commerce, and he responded, "We are not going to build the school into a 3A scenic spot, but to build a campus environment according to the standards of 3A scenic spots."

Wan revealed that the school has developed tourism management, environmental art, art design and other majors, and is about to build a tourism college. The school will explore professional characteristics and promote professional development through the creation of campus environment.

"So, this is the need of professional construction, is the need of running a school. Building a campus environment is mainly for teaching, which is the most important and fundamental. " He has always stressed.

In response to the charges raised by some netizens, Wan told the reporter of Zhongxin. com. Com believes that "charging is a misunderstanding. If the plan is implemented smoothly and the campus environment is built, citizens will visit and experience it. We welcome it and will definitely not charge. "

"Why is the media so concerned about this?" Wan admits that he didn't expect this announcement to cause such a big controversy, because as far as he knows, some colleges and universities have already made practice in building scenic spots.

Although most colleges and universities are not scenic spots now, as long as summer vacation or a certain flower season comes, some well-known colleges and universities will always attract thousands of tourists to visit.

As early as 2006, there were media reports that the number of daily tourists in Tsinghua University reached 1 1,000 at the peak of summer vacation. However, at that time, the relevant person in charge of the school said that because of the large campus area and many tourists in Tsinghua, there would be no restrictions.

Ten years later, every summer, Tsinghua, Peking University and other universities welcome more and more tourists. The school has also introduced measures to require tourists to visit within a limited time.

Don't regard the school as a tourist attraction, the school is a place to study.