YOUR IDENTITY CAN BE STOLEN AT AMUSEMENT PARKS!
Amusement parks generate great money from adventure enthusiasts, teenagers, children, and families as a whole. Basically, the audience for amusement parks is large. And here lies the threat!
Why do fraudsters/ convicts/ criminals choose to commit their crime at amusement parks? Firstly, because it is heavily crowded, secondly there is less security or lack of security for obvious reasons, but most importantly because nobody knows anyone. When so many customers are unaware of the other customers, they are the most vulnerable, especially children and young adults.
With so many strangers coming in every day, it is very difficult to track each and every one. Hence, this issue poses several threats to people and the management. This could result in a robbery, kidnapping, and other heinous crimes. The major step every management in the world can take is to automate identity verification. This, however, should not become more tedious. If done online, it can be easy and can act as a stronger safety net against frauds.
Thousands of unknown people can be dangerous, however, the security level of these amusement parks should also be heightened with a better staff of security guards, more number of functioning cameras, tickets that are linked to customers individually, to punch into every area for access, helpline numbers for guidance and complaints in case anything suspicious is found. Also, it is vital that the entire staff recruited in every department is educated about several threat scenarios and how to react to them in a calm, quick and streamlined way.
What happens when there are cases of robbery and other crime? The management is legally charged for negligence. They have to face several legal battles based on various levels depending on the crime committed. Which in turn, acts as a trail for further loss as customers become aware of the facts and prefer choosing a different amusement park to fulfil their adventure experiences.
Amusement park businesses also fail in one more sector and that is online booking. What happens is that lack of verification ends up in people booking with wrong identity proofs and selecting the cheaper access packages to benefit for themselves. Since there are so many bookings done daily, online and in person, the staff does not check the ID Proofs thoroughly and therefore many people manage to accomplish this fraud. Customers also bring in drugs, alcohol which become a nuisance for other customers especially families, further destroying the reputation of the amusement park.
With a lack of tech transparency, transactions also are done hastily, which result in transaction failure, further resulting in a loss for the companies. Therefore, it is very important that amusement parks comply with every government law enforcement and protocol to steer clear of losses, damages and threats of any sort.