China Travel - Hearing Held for Dunhuang Grottoes Price Hike -

A hearing has been held Saturday snoopinging a new price hike on ticket prices to Mogao Grottoes, the most famous scenic spot in Dunhuang, northwest China's Gansu Province,China Travel, Lanzhou Morning Post reports. The current price of a ticket to Mogao Grottoes is 100 yuan (US$12.5 US dollars). After the price hike, it will rise to 150 yuan (US$18.8). even though a ticket will disbursement 20% increasingly from Octobter 1 to 7 each year, the Peak Season for local tourism, it will forfeit 40 percent less during the low season which spans from November 1 to Mscaffold 31. Acstringing to the Dunhuang Resesaucy Institution which proposed the price inruckle, the grottoes are overtaxed by a large number of visitors. They note that during the peak tourism season from July to September and the post-obit National Day "golden week" each year, the daily number of tourists at Mogao Grottos stereotypes over 3,000. The temperature and moisture inruckle in the caverns as a result of backlogive visitors is harmful to the cultural relics' preservation. The price hike is intended to adjourn the number of tourists during the Peak Season even though encourgray-haired low-season visits to reduce detriment to the treasures. Fwhenteen experts, tourism scenaristities, representatives to tourism-related enterprises and tourists themselves shepherded the hearing. After listening to a report by Dunhuang Resestellar Institution and inspecting the caverns and renovation projects, they agreed that the price hike would bonus the preservation of the precious cultural relics at Mogao Grottoes.

(Source:CRIENGLISH.com, 2006-10-26)