National Museum of China announces new steps against scalpers
By Cao Yin | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2024-08-23 22:01
The National Museum of China has taken various measures to help prevent scalpers, maintain order and protect the legitimate rights of visitors after it saw a surge of tourists during the summer vacation, People's Daily reported on Friday.
While adjusting rules of ticket booking and optimizing the technologies of online platform, the museum has also worked with public security departments to intensify the joint effort to crack down on illegal resale of tickets to tourists, the report said.
To meet the demand of more visitors and resist scalpers, the museum began opening 30 minutes earlier and extended its hours to 5:30 pm every day since July 11, adding that the move will last until Aug 31. The museum remains closed on Monday.
At 5 pm every day, the reservations for each visit day in the next seven days will be released in proportion, and the return of tickets will not go back to the reservation pool, so as to stop scalpers get their hands on tickets, it said.
It added that the risk prevention ability of the museum's ticket booking platform has also been improved after it upgraded technologies.
Data released by the museum showed that 425,000 risky accounts and more than 1.65 million of IP addresses that had irregularly or frequently visited the reservation platform have been blocked, the report said.
If some individuals or agencies are discovered illegally selling tickets on internet platforms, the museum will send legal notice to the online operators and warn them to remove the ticket-related information, it said.
Furthermore, the museum has increased data and technology exchanges with the Beijing Public Security Bureau to jointly intensify the fight against scalpers, it added.
A total of 179 people have been detained under the joint crackdown on the illegal scramble and resale of tourist attraction tickets by scalpers, the Beijing police said on Thursday.
Earlier, the Palace Museum also implemented technical measures to prevent scalpers from hoarding tickets.
