{"id":47688,"date":"2026-09-24T00:42:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47688"},"modified":"2026-09-24T00:42:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:42:50","slug":"the-ticketmaster-of-camping-a-us-company-is-raking-in-millions-in-fees-the-walrus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47688","title":{"rendered":"The Ticketmaster of Camping: A US Company Is Raking In Millions in Fees | The Walrus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Long queues. Rising prices. What\u2019s a hike worth in a Canadian park?<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/walrus-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/img\/Web_CanadasTicketmasterofCamping_Sep26_02-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:210px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/thewalrus.ca\/the-ticketmaster-of-camping\/\">The Ticketmaster of Camping: A US Company Is Raking In Millions in Fees | The Walrus<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">bots?  probably not:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Parks Canada later clarified that <strong><em>an internal investigation had determined the problems were not due to automated booking tools or \u201cbots,\u201d<\/em><\/strong> the narrative has stuck. Almost any time a conversation about issues with campsite bookings comes up, someone will argue that bots are the reason reservations are so hard to come by.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Ticketmaster of Camping: A US Company Is Raking In Millions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[573,84,1134],"class_list":["post-47688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-camping","tag-canada","tag-software","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47690,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47688\/revisions\/47690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}