Olympic games 2012 tickets

Unveiling what he termed "the daddy of all ticket strategies", the London chairman, Lord Coe, said every effort had been made to ensure the tickets were available to as many people as possible. Tickets are an important revenue stream for us to fund the games and our ticketing plans have the clear aim of filling our venues to the rafters. About 1. Anyone who is 16 or under at the start of the games, on 27 July , will pay their age in pounds.

There will also be a ticketshare scheme in which thousands of schoolchildren will get tickets. As well as tickets being available from Organising Committees on a global basis, fans and stakeholders will also have access to unique ticket-inclusive travel and hospitality experiences through one official hospitality provider — On Location. Learn more here. Ticketing and hospitality. Paris will offer an exciting new way for spectators from around the globe to experience Paris official hospitality packages.

Tokyo Pyeongchang Rio Sochi Attention will then turn to the battle to shift those football tickets and the embarrassing possibility of swaths of empty seats. There is also the technical complexity of ressurecting the resale scheme that caused all the problems earlier this year and ensuring unused sponsors' tickets find their way into the hands of the public.

Not to mention inevitable issues around touting and scam websites. Coe and Locog chief executive Paul Deighton have expressed sympathy for those who missed out and suggested disappointment was a simple case of supply and demand. Yet some of the errors were avoidable. Sir Keith Mills, the Locog deputy chairman who owned a large ticketing company in the late s, admitted Ticketmaster had "struggled" and confessed communication with the public could have been better.

They had technical glitches and software glitches and difficulty dealing with some of the high volumes. But relative to the overall project they were really quite small. Ultimately, Locog will point to the plaudits they have received from the IOC in selling out stadiums for sports that traditionally struggle to draw crowds, while hitting its revenue targets with ease.

Privately, they say they would far rather deal with the consequences of overdemand than be struggling to balance the budget. Mills, like Coe and Deighton, believes they have made it through with public goodwill intact as tickets start arriving this week. I absolutely do. We got it about as right as we could. We wanted to hit our revenue targets, we wanted full stadiums and we wanted to treat everyone as equally as we could," Mills said.

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London organisers hope Ticketmaster technology can cope — and that football fans show interest in 1. London organising committee chairman Lord Coe has refused to rule out giving away tickets to Olympics football matches. What are your chances?