THE park management authorities in Beijing said they are considering blacklisting uncivilized visitors via AI technologies in order to ban the wrongdoers from entering parks.

On the second day of the three-day Tomb-sweeping Day holiday, also known as the Qingming Festival, parks in Beijing have experienced an upsurge in visitors, which has seen uncivilized tourist behavior, officials at the Beijing Municipal Administration Center of Parks told the Beijing Youth Daily.

The center is considering establishing a blacklist to restrict loutish travelers — for example, those who destroy cultural relics and refuse to stop — from entering the park, the report said.

The report said that some tourists have been spotted climbing peach trees, picking flowers and damaging plants. There were also people who fished near the lake and sold things privately in the park.

Mi Shanpo, an official at the center, said, “Technologies such as facial recognition will be used to detect uncivilized behavior.

In 2017, six facial scanners were installed in the male and female sections of the busiest toilets in the Temple of Heaven after reports of an increasing number of local residents raiding the park’s toilets to steal toilet paper.

The China National Tourism Administration implemented tighter rules for tourists in 2016, and placed 20 people who failed to observe public order and scenic regulations on the blacklist. The blacklisted travelers’ behavior included quarreling, fighting, disturbing the peace, climbing on statues and stealing scenic assets.

(Global Times)