entrance fee
As admission refers to the to enter or to visit certain facilities required fee . It is usually requested at the entrance in a ticket counter, occasionally also in a machine with a turnstile , which is used for access control . In most of the facilities that charge an entrance fee, if you leave the area that is subject to an entrance fee, you have to pay for entry again when you return. Especially at events or in discotheques, after paying the entrance fee, visitors receive a stamp on the back of their hands , which entitles them to multiple admission.
The entrance fee, insofar as it is levied by non-profit organizations, is usually used for a specific purpose , for example to refinance personnel costs , maintenance costs or maintenance costs .
pre sales
For events with a high entrance fee, tickets can often be purchased in advance, far away from the event site. Some major events sell out long before the actual event. An example of large-scale advance ticket sales is the 2006 World Cup . Advance sales are usually also carried out for concerts or similar events. A presale fee is usually charged in advance sales . This is usually between 10 and 15% of the basic price.
Safeguards
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Modern tickets have other technical features, such as: B. a magnetic strip , an integrated chip ( RFID ) or a machine-readable barcode to speed up the technical reading process. They are produced, sold and distributed using modern e-ticketing processes, including the Internet. Some open source projects are working on it. This is primarily intended to prevent counterfeiting . The tickets for the 2006 World Cup in Germany were tied to the names of the customers. This should serve both to avoid so-called hooligans and to prevent black market business . In the meantime, many providers also offer print @ home the option of printing out admission tickets at home on a PC printer. These tickets usually contain a 2-dimensional barcode , which is checked for validity by barcode scanners upon entry . In addition to securing the tickets, the event area is usually also secured. Examples are fences or emergency exit doors that can only be opened from inside the building. This is to prevent someone from entering the area who has not paid entry.
Hard ticket and system ticket
The hard ticket has the function of a normal concert or festival ticket, but in contrast to the computer-generated system tickets from advance sales, it is usually decorated with colored sponsor logos and other images. The hard ticket is often used as a special souvenir and is therefore often bought by concert ticket collectors.
Affected institutions
Typical examples where you usually have to pay an entrance fee are listed below:
- Tower restaurants
- Observation towers
- Museums , in some countries free on Sundays
- Locks
- Show caves
- generally the lockable sights
- Discos
- many events, e.g. B.
In some cases, entry is also charged for the following facilities:
You don't usually have to pay anything to enter the following facilities:
- public space
- youth Center
- shopping mall
- Parks
- Churches (except for concerts)
- Restaurants
- Folk festivals
- City festivals
- Beer tents
- Techno parades
- Vernissages
- Woods
In other countries (such as Great Britain) and recently also increasingly in Germany (such as the Berlin Cathedral ), entry is required to visit churches that are particularly interesting for tourists. Attending church services, however, is almost never affected.
GDR
Popularly was by West German to be constructed mandatory exchange during the visit to the GDR as entrance fee referred to as the einzutauschenden Mark of the GDR in the economy of scarcity existed in the GDR no suitable ways to use and mandatory exchange thus had the character of an entrance fee from the perspective of travelers.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birgit Wolf: Language in the GDR. A dictionary. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2000, ISBN 3-11-016427-2 , keywords “Minimum exchange”, “Compulsory exchange” and “Entrance fee”, pp. 51, 147 and 258.
