The National Day holiday is a good time for everyone to relax and enjoy the beautiful mountains and rivers of the motherland. Many people have also included the Ancient City of Xinzhou, Shanxi on their travel list.
Xinzhou Ancient City does have its unique charm. It does not charge tickets, allowing tourists to easily enter this historical and cultural city and experience its profound cultural heritage. However, what should have been a pleasant cultural journey was severely ruined by the high local accommodation prices.
In hotels and homestays that are affordable on weekdays, the prices are simply rockets during the National Day holiday. The increase was so big that it was shocking that it directly increased by more than five times. The room originally costing one or two hundred yuan during the holiday was transformed into a price of thousands. This is not a reasonable price fluctuation, it is clearly a "take advantage of the situation" for tourists. For ordinary tourists, the accommodation budget has increased significantly, and the overall travel cost has risen sharply, seriously affecting the travel experience and mood.
If this chaos continues and is not rectified, the consequences will be unimaginable. The popularity and reputation that Xinzhou Ancient City has finally accumulated will be exhausted by the tourists' repeated disappointments and complaints. Tourists are not fools. After being "slaughtered" once, not only will they not come again, but they will also inform their relatives and friends of their bad experiences, making more people discouraged from the ancient city of Xinzhou. If this continues, the local tourism industry will inevitably fall into a vicious cycle and the tourism market will become messy, which will ultimately harm the local economic development and people's livelihood.
The local government must not sit idly by the situation. The market has its own regulatory effect, but in a special period of peak tourism season, in the face of such an outrageous price increase, the government must intervene in time. On the one hand, we must strengthen supervision of the accommodation industry, strictly investigate and punish illegal acts such as price gouging, and impose heavy penalties on illegal merchants to create a strong deterrent; on the other hand, relevant policies should be introduced to regulate price behavior, guide merchants to price reasonably, and protect consumers' legitimate rights and interests. Only in this way can the tourism market of Xinzhou Ancient City develop healthily and orderly, and truly become a tourist destination that tourists yearn for, rather than a "city of slaughtering guests" that people cannot avoid. I hope Xinzhou Ancient City can solve the chaos in accommodation prices as soon as possible and not let "sky-high accommodation" become a stumbling block on the road to development.
