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The fundamental solution is to alleviate the contradiction between supply and demand and make museum tickets no longer "hard to come by".

Why are some originally free museum tickets being sold at high prices by scalpers? Recently, a CCTV News reporter logged into the National Museum’s WeChat applet for several consecutive days and found that all tickets were “fully booked” within seven days. After randomly interviewing 30 tourists outside the National Museum, the reporter found that only two of them had made reservations through formal channels, and the other 28 had found scalpers to pay extra to enter the museum.

On July 19, 2024, in Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province, tourists visited the museum to experience the charm of Chinese history and culture. Visual China Photo

According to reports, it is summer vacation now, and many popular museums and famous universities have difficulty in making reservations. In addition to the large number of tourists, the existence of "scalpers" reselling tickets is an important factor. So, when ordinary tourists lament "slow action, no tickets" and "tickets sold out in seconds", why can "scalpers" place orders frantically? Not long ago, the People's Procuratorate of Haidian District, Beijing, just handled a "scalper" ticket reselling case, which revealed the mystery.

It turns out that most of the "scalpers" will use the tourist information they have and use technical support such as ticket grabbing tools to grab a large number of ticket resources first. Some can lock hundreds or thousands of ticket sources within one second. At the same time, they will post ticket resale information on various social platforms. After attracting real tourists, they will continue to refund and grab tickets quickly, and finally successfully cash in on the ticket sources.