I live in a city that has an AHL hockey team (minor league, one division below NHL), and tickets are nearly an order of magnitude cheaper than the NHL. (Except for beers, which are still laughably overpriced).
Anyway, another industry that has gone this way is the ski industry. Back in college, we'd get up early, pile a bunch of people in a car, drive 3 hours to the slopes, pay $40 for a lift ticket, ski until sunset and drive home. Now, lift tickets are incredibly expensive, all the while the ski resorts built up amenities like bars and restaurants, spas, etc. And they wonder why their customers are trending older...
I also believe this is a big part of why college has become much more expensive: the amenities arms race.
Where I live, I am not from here, but I hear the stories all the time. It is a big place for skiing. An annual pass would be like $100 20 years ago, not it looks to being $1500 for an annual pass. I guess technically seasonal, but I think they use the annual terminology.
I went to a Vancouver Canucks game once. The concessions prices were still outrageous, but they were in Canadian dollars and after the exchange rate, they were perfectly reasonable.
Anyway, another industry that has gone this way is the ski industry. Back in college, we'd get up early, pile a bunch of people in a car, drive 3 hours to the slopes, pay $40 for a lift ticket, ski until sunset and drive home. Now, lift tickets are incredibly expensive, all the while the ski resorts built up amenities like bars and restaurants, spas, etc. And they wonder why their customers are trending older...
I also believe this is a big part of why college has become much more expensive: the amenities arms race.