UNIVERSAL Beijing Resort is banning and denying the access of unauthorized professional photographers who offer tourists at the resort photo-shoot service.

Recently, several freelance photographers who offer services to tourists inside Beijing Universal park posted on Xiaohongshu, an Instagram-like app, that the park is removing the private photo-shoot service offered by professional photographers inside park.

“Starting from April 2, Universal park is taking action to prevent photographers from offering photo-shoot services inside the park, especially in the area of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. And the specific action to prevent photo-shoot services is still unknown,” a photographer nicknamed She Ying Shi Xiao Yue posted on Xiaohongshu.

Many expressed their support to the park’s decision. “It is an amusement park, not a photo-shoot studio,” commented a Xiaohongshu user nicknamed Mu Zi De Li.

Some shared their visiting experience in the park saying that it seemed some visitors and their photographers were growing roots in some scenic spots inside the park, which affected other people’s visiting experience and caused chaos, especially during peak hours.

“To be honest, it was very disturbing to see visitors posing in front of their photographers in the park, especially in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, whose passage is rather narrow and their posing activities just blocked other visitors,” a netizen Xiao Tai commented. (China Daily)