Huangshan City intends to implement "paid rescue" attracts attention
Not for charging, but for deterrence, warning and education
Recently, Huangshan City Culture and Tourism Bureau, together with Huangshan City Emergency Management Bureau and Huangshan City Justice Bureau, issued the "Letter for Soliciting Opinions on Guiding Opinions on Compensated Rescue of Mountain Scenic Spots in Huangshan City."
The document stated that it is proposed to implement a paid rescue policy for tourists who enter undeveloped and unopened areas without authorization and are trapped in distress.
After the document was released, it attracted social attention.
The “paid rescue” is explained in the document: Paid rescue refers to tourists who do not comply with Huangshan City’s tourist attractions regulations, enter undeveloped and unopened areas without authorization and fall into a trapped or dangerous state. After the territorial government completes the rescue, the tourism activities organize The person and the rescued person shall bear the corresponding rescue costs.
The document clearly stipulates that the cost composition includes labor services, pre-hospital treatment, transportation, accident insurance, logistics support, and the introduction of third-party rescue forces during the rescue process. The labor costs of rescuers are determined in accordance with rescuers' salaries and actual rescue time.
The document also pointed out that the payment of paid rescue fees by tourist activity organizers and rescued persons does not exempt them from their legal responsibilities for entering undeveloped and unopened areas without authorization.
In addition, if the tourist activity organizer and the rescued person neither raise objections nor pay the paid rescue fee within 3 months of receiving the "Notice of Payment of Paid Rescue Costs", the territorial government may include them in the record of uncivilized behavior. Recover according to law.
Many netizens expressed their support for this, and some netizens said, "It should have been like this a long time ago and I hope to promote it nationwide."
Huangshan is a world cultural and natural heritage. It has the characteristics of high mountains and deep valleys, dangerous terrain, and steep trails. Tourists will enter the undeveloped and open areas of the scenic area for outdoor activities. There have also been distress and rescue incidents of different levels of "Asses".
According to reports, in 2017, Huangshan Scenic Area carried out as many as 483 rescues, of which 120 were major rescues. On May 3, 2021, two tourists entered the undeveloped open area without authorization while visiting Guniujiang Scenic Area, Qimen County, Huangshan City. , Trapped deep in the mountains in distress, Qimen County dispatched more than 200 rescuers to carry out a 27-hour rescue, and the two tourists were finally rescued.
It is reported that in 2018, the Huangshan Scenic Area Management Committee issued the "Huangshan Scenic Area Compensated Rescue Implementation Measures."
On June 1, 2019, tourist Wang Moumou broke into an undeveloped and unopened area in the Huangshan sub-scenic area without purchasing a ticket. After receiving a request for help, the local rescue team successfully rescued Wang Moumou after 7 hours and 5 minutes. All staff returned safely.
The total cost of this rescue was 15,227 yuan, of which 3,206 yuan was borne by the party concerned, Wang Moumou. This is also the first paid rescue in Huangshan Scenic Area.
In recent years, distress situations have occurred from time to time that "Asses" enter undeveloped and unopened areas.
Tibet, Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu and other provinces with rich tourism resources have formulated mountaineering management regulations and outdoor sports management methods.
Scenic areas such as Aden, Siguniang Mountain, Daocheng, Sichuan, and other scenic spots have also successively launched paid rescue management measures.
In the view of Professor Yao Lizhong, deputy dean of the School of Tourism of Huangshan University, the implementation of paid rescue in mountainous scenic spots is to legislate at the national level to promote the coordinated development of emergency rescue teams of enterprises and institutions, emergency rescue teams of social organizations, and emergency volunteers. Emergency forces participate in emergency rescue work, reasonable collection of rescue fees and other behaviors to regulate measures.
"The purpose of setting up paid rescue is mainly education and deterrence." Yao Lizhong believes that the premise for tourists to understand the unknown and the mystery is to predict their own specific circumstances, not to explore blindly.
In the face of emergencies, the government has the duty of rescue, but it should be emphasized that although the “allies” in distress have the right to request the rescue by tour operators, local governments, and relevant agencies, after receiving the rescue, tourists have the necessary obligations. Pay for the expenses borne by the individual, not the public resource.
The relevant person in charge of Huangshan Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism believes that the establishment of a paid rescue system can deter, warn, and educate people who violate laws and regulations through undeveloped areas and those in distress who trespass into scenic spots without a ticket, and urge tourists to abide by regulations and travel safely and civilly; to the greatest extent possible; Reduce man-made dangers, try to avoid the casualties of rescuers that may be caused by follow-up rescue, and avoid the unreasonable consumption and overdraft of public resources such as people, property, and materials.
An insider in the tourism industry said that the purpose of paid rescue is not to "collect money", but to invest the limited rescue force and rescue funds in the scenic area into the rescue protection of tourists on the regular tourist routes, so as to improve the satisfaction and sense of safety of tourists.
China Youth Daily·China Youth Daily reporter Wang Haihan and Wang Lei, intern Wang Tao Source: China Youth Daily