題目：Foreign visitors should pay more than local visitors for cultura land historical attractions. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?
參觀文化和歷史景點(diǎn)，外國人要比本國人多付錢，你覺得這件事怎么看？
英文：
Foreign visitors should pay more than local visitors for cultural and historical attractions. It is a fact in many countries, especially in developing countries.
To some extent, this behavior is reasonable. Since local people pay taxes to the local government which is used in maintenance and operating charges of the cultural and historical attractions, they deserve ticket discounts. Also local residents need to go to some places more often than foreigners, such as temples, so the overall fare income from a local and a foreigner is nearly the same. Locals just buy many more fares in a lower price. It is fair.
This phenomenon is sometimes about religion and culture similarities. For example, Egypt’s attractions’ price is in two levels: the cheaper one is for locals and tourists from other Arab countries, and non-Arab countries’ visitors have to accept a higher fee. In India, there is a large price difference between locals and foreigners, but Nepal tourist are treated the same as Indians due to the similar cultural background.
Actually, the high charge of foreign tourists has a lot of shortcomings too. It is unfair and harmful to the reputation of the beauty spots. Visitors abroad will have a bad impression on them and even don’t go there to travel any more. Then the countries which have different fare levels will lose money in the end. Take India as an example, Taj Mahal, is a world-famous beauty spot. The ticket for a foreigner is 750 rupees while for a local 40 rupees. The outside environment is quite dirty and unpleasant. Foreigners even cannot find places to eat or drink. So if the foreigners pay more, they can get better service such as clean water supply, they will feel much better.
In my opinion, this difference is a kind of price discrimination which is widely used in any business. But clever price discriminations are about the service improvement or the discounts, not about the features that customers cannot change. Like the Disneyland, the expensive tickets have more priorities which both benefit the customers and the company.
Take an example in China: Yuntai Mountain in Henan Province has a discount to all women in the International Women’s Day which is not treated unfair to men. And the increase of tourists’ number is quite obvious which makes the owners of restaurants, hotels, souvenir shops very happy.
All in all, I feel that the price discriminations between the locals and foreigners are not necessary. If I meet, I will obey it but I probably never go there again.
中文：
文化歷史景點(diǎn)會對外國游客收取比本國游客更高的價(jià)格，這個現(xiàn)象在某些國家，特別是發(fā)展中國家是存在的。
某種程度上，這種做法有其合理性，合理性在于：很多旅游景點(diǎn)的維護(hù)和運(yùn)營經(jīng)費(fèi)是當(dāng)?shù)卣ㄟ^稅收來承擔(dān)的，本國人已經(jīng)交過稅了，所以理應(yīng)獲得門票費(fèi)用的優(yōu)惠。另外，有些景點(diǎn)，比如寺廟，本國人去的比外國人多得多，所以雖然對本國人有優(yōu)惠，但整體上本國人和外國人給景點(diǎn)創(chuàng)造的收入是差不多的，相當(dāng)于本地人用更便宜的價(jià)格買了更多而已，這是公平的。
這個現(xiàn)象有的時(shí)候是關(guān)于宗教及文化的相似性的。比如埃及的景點(diǎn)門票就分兩檔，對本地人和阿拉伯國家的人就要價(jià)便宜，對非阿拉伯國家的游客就要價(jià)高。再比如說印度，本國人和外國人的票價(jià)差很大，但尼泊爾的游客就可以享受印度人的待遇，因?yàn)樗麄兾幕嘟?/p>
當(dāng)然，對外國游客收取過高門票也會有很大弊端，因?yàn)檫@會讓游客認(rèn)為他們受到了不公平對待，影響他們對當(dāng)?shù)氐挠∠螅@可能導(dǎo)致一部分人不愿意去當(dāng)?shù)芈糜危瑥亩绊懥水?dāng)?shù)氐穆糜螛I(yè)收入。價(jià)格高服務(wù)也沒有對應(yīng)的高，舉個印度的例子，泰姬陵，本國人的門票才40盧比，而外國人要750盧比。外面的環(huán)境很差，外國游客甚至很難找到吃飯飲水地方。如果外國游客多付錢，能享受到更好的服務(wù)，這還好一點(diǎn)。
我認(rèn)為，這種價(jià)格差異是一種在商業(yè)中很常見的概念，叫做價(jià)格歧視。但是聰明的價(jià)格歧視意圖是通過提高服務(wù)質(zhì)量或者打折來留住客戶，而不是用客戶無法改變的特點(diǎn)去收高價(jià)。就像迪士尼樂園，高價(jià)的票是享有優(yōu)先權(quán)的，這對企業(yè)和游客都有好處。
舉一個中國的例子，河南的云臺山在婦女節(jié)期間對于所有的女性游客都是打折的，這并不會讓男人覺得特別不公平，畢竟是過節(jié)嘛。而且這樣增加的游客數(shù)量是很客觀的，讓附近的餐館、賓館和紀(jì)念品商店的老板都可開了花。
總結(jié)一下，我覺得針對本國和外國游客的價(jià)格歧視很沒必要，如果我碰上了，那就遵守好了，不過我很可能不會再去第二次了。
