Palace Museum's crackdown takes aim at visitor misbehavior

Following a spate of uncivilized behavior related to the tourism market, the Palace Museum has blacklisted 2,500 visitors since June for misbehaving, part of an effort aimed at protecting ancient relics as well as restoring market order by eliminating illegal vendors and ticket scalpers.

As the weeklong National Day holiday reaches its peak with a huge number of visitors at iconic spots such as the Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, improper behavior such as scrawling graffiti on historical relics, scalping tickets and littering have drawn media attention and criticism from the public.

To deter such bad behavior, the Palace Museum implemented a real-name ticket purchasing system in June and has since banned around 2,500 people who have been linked to misconduct from buying tickets or entering the site for an undisclosed period of time.