During the "Eleventh" long holiday, many people go out of their residences to various tourist attractions in the city, such as walking on the greenway, mountaineering and looking far, enjoying flowers and fish, and parent-child games...... In some permitted places, a stove is set up to have a barbecue meal with smoke curling and enjoy the gifts of nature...... But there is a fly in the ointment, and there are also annoying things that make people unhappy.
It is the universal law of nature to spit out the old and absorb the new, and to enter and exit. Especially in the crowded areas of holidays, the "convenience" of tourists is more prominent. To this end, many scenic spots have also used their brains to solve the problem of unbalanced squatting positions between men and women.
The scenic spot is set up with a toilet shared by men and women who close the door and a mother and baby room for women and children.
However, the problem is not well solved -
In a new urban park in eastern Wuhan, there is only one place where men and women can lock convenient public toilets when they enter. This arrangement solves the problem of uneven squatting between men and women. However, due to the lack of toilet slots on the whole, many tourists can only wait outside - this kind of toilet construction makes the waiting time for men and women fair, but the overall waiting time of tourists has not decreased! When returning to the city from this scenic spot, I heard from tourists from a nearby scenic spot that they didn't even have a public toilet in that scenic spot, and they had to walk a long way to the community where we played to be "convenient".
The toilet problem is a long-standing problem. Many years ago, I wrote "Listen to the Opinions of the People" on May 8, 2002 in the People's Daily forum, based on the question of how to measure the number of public toilets in urban construction during the "Two Sessions" in Wuhan. The article points out that there may be relevant documents stipulating how many toilets can be built in a place. However, as long as the "relevant departments" really go to the field to investigate and listen more to the opinions of the common people, there will be no serious mistakes in decision-making.
More than 20 years have passed. With the development of the times this year, the scope of the city is expanding, the activities and content are more and more abundant, and the time and frequency of people's travel are also increasing, and the demand will naturally be more and higher.
How to lay out the scenic spots, increase the number of amusement projects to attract tourists, and increase the amount of income is naturally very important. It is hard to imagine that a scenic spot that does not make money only relies on the government to allocate funds and rely on the superiors to issue documents to organize tourists, which obviously cannot last for a long time (except for some special industries and projects with demand). However, in order to meet the needs of people not to make it difficult and difficult for "convenience" in the scenic area, this is something that the management department and leaders of the development project must not forget. Tourist attractions are divided into peak season and off-season, and there are also times when there are more people and fewer people, which is due to the laws of nature. I suggest that the "relevant departments" go to those scenic spots that have done well to study, go to those places where tourists have great opinions, and make some efforts to come up with rectification methods, so that the problem of "convenience" and more convenience in going to tourist attractions will certainly be solved as soon as possible. I hope that this day will come a little bit dryer.
Source: Jingchu Network (Hubei Daily)
Author: Zhao Zhenyu (Professor, School of Journalism and Information Communication, Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
Editor-in-charge: Ding Yue