When traveling to Beijing, can I buy tickets for the Forbidden City online?

Yes, now you can only buy tickets for the Forbidden City online.

From 20 17, 10 and 10, the Palace Museum officially canceled the on-site ticket sales. From then on, all tickets for the Palace Museum can only be purchased online.

The reason why the Palace Museum does this is that online ticket sales can not only reduce the time for the audience to queue up to buy tickets, but also indirectly increase the audience who are really interested in visiting the exhibition and reduce the number of tourists who just come to the Palace Museum to "take a look".

The announcement of the Palace Museum in official website revealed that next year, the Palace Museum will try to sell tickets by time, and visitors will choose a specific time of the day to visit the museum when purchasing tickets. By doing so, we can continue to save the waiting time of the audience on the basis of the present.

Before the full implementation of online ticketing, the Palace Museum tried and adjusted this ticketing method during the summer vacation and National Day holiday, when there were a large number of tourists. At present, in addition to web payment, online pre-sale websites also support mobile payment.

During the National Day holiday, for the first time, the Palace Museum realized that all tickets for that day were sold online. 201710021:38, before dawn, all 80,000 tickets for the second day have been sold out online.

As soon as the Palace Museum opened that day, a notice that all 80,000 tickets were sold out was displayed on the big screen of Duanmen Square. 80,000 tickets on that day13: 55,65438+10/3 were all sold out. There is no ticket office in the Palace Museum. For those tourists who have no online shopping ability, the Palace Museum has set up four service windows. In these windows, the staff can help tourists who are inconvenient to buy online to book air tickets online.

The official response of the Forbidden City said that during the trial of 65438 comprehensive online ticketing on June 7, the comprehensive service window only received 13 13 people, and they felt that the number was lower than the estimated number, which was within the scope of their manual service.