The Hive constructing inside Nanyang Technological College in Singapore is a prime pictures spot due to its distinctive structure. Photograph by Wiki
Nanyang Technological College, one in every of Singapore’s prime universities, plans to cost an entry price on tour teams to stop massive crowds of vacationers that trigger a nuisance on college students.
The transfer got here after many international vacationers just lately flocked to the college’s campus for sightseeing and pictures, triggering noise and disruption, Channel Information Asia reported.
The college’s administration board introduced it could require all journey companies planning excursions to the campus to hunt prior approval in addition to pay the price.
The charges are “supposed to assist campus upkeep and the regulation of car stream” and to “guarantee a sustainable visiting expertise,” it mentioned within the announcement as cited by The Strait Instances.
Nevertheless, it did not reveal how a lot the price could be or when it could be applied.
Many college students on the college earlier complained on social media that they confronted distractions from vacationers taking photographs and peeping over their shoulders at The Hive constructing, whose facade bears a resemblance to dim sum baskets.
Some vacationers have even entered school rooms, disrupting pupil classes.