Nowadays, perspectives of whether museums should collect entrance fees or not are
among people. Some people believe that museums should charge fees for their own benefits while others think that
this
would cause negative impacts to museums more than positive aspects. Despite there are some drawbacks for charging people when they enter the museums, I am convinced that there are more merits than the demerits.
On the one hand, it can be argued that museums will be less popular among visitors. Charging the fees for entering exhibitions will cause visitors or travellers to avoid visit the places.
This
is because those travellers, especially international travellers, have limited budgets to spend while they are travelling.
Therefore
, once they learn that there are costs for visiting the places, they will choose to travel to other locations that are
rather than coming to museums.
For instance
, the tourist survey reveals that many museums in New York experience a dramatic drop by 70% of
of international visitors within the
first
few months that they apply fees for entering
.
Consequently
, most of the museums have to reopen without charging fees for visitors so they could gain
number
of visitors.
On the other hand
, there are a
number
of benefits associated with charging entrance fees at museums.
Firstly
, museums would have new revenues that they could pay for hiring staff and for maintenance costing. Those two expenses are high and so having a new source of income would help
museum
to run their normal businesses.
For example
,
Louveone of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain
museum
in Paris has normally ten millions dollar per years that they need to respond since they was established. If
museum
did not have fees incomes from visitors, it would experience loss and close its place.
Secondly
, implementing money charging can help museums to restrict only people, who interested to study and learn.
This
will help museums to limit
number
of visitors per day so that they can have only people that have good intentions to be educated visit their place. It would be easy for
museum
to serve only the right target customers.
In conclusion, it seems to me that
although
there is a negative impact of
when they choose to charge visitors the entrance fees, there are more benefits that museums could receive as they could have new incomes for their expenses and have only the
number
of right target visitors.