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If fares were such an insignificant source of income before when residents had to pay, why bother ticketing at all when the only fare payers left would be an extreme minority that also happen to be your guests?
So much money spent on ticketing systems, apps, registration and other overhead that nobody needs and could be spent on improving the service instead if it was simply free for everyone. I highly doubt doing that makes any sort of profit. I don't get it.
I am not sure tourists in Montpellier are such a rarity.
Estimated population is about 480 000.
I could not find great sources for how much tourism they get, but this page gives a number for conference attendants like 10 years ago and that was 1 200 000 per year (https://www.invest-in-montpellier.com/en/tourism-strategic-sector-montpellier-metropole)
Of course they don't stay all year but these are all people not paying their taxes there and it makes sense to still ticket them.
It doesn't make sense if the ticketing revenue is less than the expense of administering a ticketing system, plus issuing passes to all residents.
That's before you consider those visitors are being encouraged to drive instead of taking transit which costs the taxpayers more!
It would be easier to make public transport free and add more to the tourist taxes paid by hotels