Chao News Client Reporter Ma Yan This summer, museums continue to heat up. Data from Ctrip shows that so far the number of people booking domestic summer museums on the platform has increased by double digits year-on-year. Museum ticket bookings exceed those of theme parks, ranki

Chao News Client Reporter Ma Yan

This summer, museums continue to heat up. Data from Ctrip shows that so far the number of people booking domestic summer museums on the platform has increased by double digits year-on-year. Museum ticket bookings exceed those of theme parks, ranking first among all attraction types. Among them, the Shanghai Cultural Museum Tour, which holds an ancient Egyptian civilization exhibition this summer, is even more popular and attracts more attention.

Ctrip data shows that museum ticket bookings in Shanghai during the summer vacation increased by 371% year-on-year.

Today, "Top of the Pyramid: Ancient Egyptian Civilization Exhibition" is officially open to the public. At the same time, the "Mew Night at the Museum" event that complements this exhibition has started selling tickets on Ctrip.com. It is worth mentioning that visitors can bring their pet cats to the exhibition. It is reported that this is the first of its kind among comprehensive museums in the world.

It is reported that tickets for Qi "Meow" Night will go on sale at 12:00 today, and will be sold uniformly by Ctrip.com. Visitors can search for "Shanghai Museum" through the Ctrip app and click to purchase. Each show has 2,000 spectators, including 200 pet tickets. Each pet ticket can only bring one pet cat into the venue. Pet tickets are 268 yuan each, general adult tickets are 258 yuan, and minor tickets (under 18 years old) are 150 yuan.

Picture provided by Ctrip

Taking a cat to see the exhibition triggered an enthusiastic response from tourists. After tickets went on sale on the Ctrip platform, the pet-friendly tickets for the first show on July 27 were instantly sold out within one second, and the 10 pet-friendly tickets for the cat exhibition were all sold out within an hour. Next, the Shanghai Museum will regularly hold strange "meow" nights every Saturday night, with a total of 10 performances. On the day of the event, admission is at 18:00 and the museum closes at 21:00.

Screenshot of the sold-out "Meow" night pet tickets on the Ctrip app

In ancient Egypt, the cat god Bastet was regarded as a symbol of protection and spirituality. The Egyptians' worship of the cat god transcended the boundaries of time and space and is closely related to people today. The love for "cats" coincides with each other. The reporter learned from the ticket business of Ctrip, the organizer of this offline interactive event, that while watching the exhibition, the audience can take photos with their pets in the specially designed cat temple area in the "Secrets of Saqqara" exhibition hall, and can also experience "traveling with pets" Projects such as "Egypt Exhibition", "Giant Cat Sculpture Group Photo", "Cat Paw Interaction" and "Cat Paw Message".

Judging from the user information of the first round of exhibition registration, many tourists are from other places. In order to make it easier for visitors from afar to travel with their pets, Ctrip has teamed up with "pet-friendly" hotel merchants within 10 kilometers of the Shanghai Museum to make related recommendations on the Ctrip ticketing platform to facilitate guests' choice of accommodation. In addition, for guests in need, Ctrip Tickets has also created a combined ticket for Qi "Meow" Night and the Asian Pet Exhibition, so that guests who love pets can get enough of their "cat addiction" at once.