Forbidden City to employ e-ticketing system to cope with visitor numbers

BEIJING – An e-ticketing system is under development inside China's Forbidden City to cope with the large number of visitors.



"The initial e-ticketing plan has been formed," said Feng Nai'en, office director of the Forbidden City, also known in China as the Palace Museum.



Feng said the Museum had decided to make the switch because manual selling of tickets failed to monitor visitor numbers accurately.



"Once adopted, the museum will stop selling tickets if it reaches full capacity." According to Feng, the museum can hold a maximum of 50,000 visitors a day, the Beijing Morning Post reported.



The number of tourists visiting the Forbidden City exceeded its maximum capacity for four days of the seven-day National Day holiday.