Beijing’s Forbidden City, one of the city’s most-visited monuments, has blacklisted 2,500 tourists for uncivilised behaviour since June when the list was created.
According to the China Daily newspaper, improper behaviour such as scrawling graffiti on historical relics, scalping tickets and littering can get a visitor’s name included in the list, which will then incur a ban for three years.
Shan Jixiang, director of the Palace Museum, said the blacklist system has worked well in curbing misbehaviour in the monument, which receives thousands of visitors every day.
This year, a daily cap of 80,000 tourists was set, of which 50,000 tickets are sold online to prevent long queues at the booking office.
There was also a crackdown on reselling tickets.
