75% of Beijing Olympic tickets unsold
Posted Monday, January 28, 2008, 1:56 PM by Lonely Planet
Thinking of heading to China for the Olympics but concerned you'll only manage to bag tickets to the synchronised swimming or handball competitions? Well never fear as a report from Xinhua News says 75% of Beijing Olympic tickets remain unsold.
A total of 1.8 million tickets to the sports events of the August 8-24 Games went on sale in December. Although the Beijing Olympics Organising Committee (BOCOG) hasn't given a reason for the glut of unsold tickets Chinese media is reporting that it might have to do with some key events popular with the Chinese population being extremely over-subscribed while the rest had fewer bookings.
Labels: "Festivals and events", Asia and Pacific, Breaking travel news
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Beijing is a very beautiful city!
The games will start a month earlier this year.They begin on 8/8/08.The number eight being an auspicious number in chinese superstition.
But certainly it will get sold. The crowd is expected to be more from Japan and other surrounding states
I'd like to go- I've never been to Beijing or an Olympics.
I went to the Olympics site to try to buy a ticket, but being from the U.S., I'm not sure if I can. It was pretty confusing.
Every website I look at from the US shows tickets for softball (the one sport we want to watch) starting at $100 for pool play and going up to $400+ for the gold medal game. In Athens, the same tickets were going for about $10 and $40 respectively. The official Olympic website shows them as sold out. There are nine of us going to watch a family member compete. Those prices are prohibitive. Should we just wait and see???
the original post doesn't get the information right. 1.8 million was the number of tickets put out for the last lottery. Chinese public apparently preferred certain events to the others, ended up applying for the same events. Thus there was a low fulfillment rate.
However, the total number of tickets available for the Summer Olympics is much higher than 1.8 million, and it'll be put out for onsale.
People who do not live in China need to inquire their regional olympic committee as for where to get their tickets.
Do NOT trust any website promising you Olympic tickets. Many of them are not official. God know if they do have tickets to sell.
I will be in china during the olympics and from everything I read only chinese nat'ls or foreigners with a 6 month visa can purchase tickets-and the ticketing plan is super laborious and detailed and you have to actually pick up the tickets on site. So - unless I am crazy or the info is very badly displayed, I am TRYING to get tickets and cannot!
look like all tickets for Beijing Olympics are sold out. Only exceptions would be socker games that will be in other cities than Beijing.
The ticket prices are in RMB (Chinese People's Yuan). One USD is about 7 RMB.
No way!! I was trying to get tickets to some unpopular events... but no success at all!! ><"
WHERE ARE ALL THE TICKETS????
Lots of unsold tickets?
Hmmmm.. Can you spell
T-I-B-E-T? How about
S-O-F-T-W-A-R-E P-I-R-A-C-Y
Still haven't guessed the reason?
Well how about these-
Prison labor camps
Trade violations
human rights violations
Shoddy goods
Support for Mugabe
Support for North Korea
Did I miss any?
i almost bought tickets from a website that said that they have housing & tickets... but after reading this blog i'm pretty sure it is a scam, because they said that "all of the Olympic tickets are sold" and that you have to get them from companies like their's
Has anyone ever heard of china.culturegateway.com ? if its not legit, whats a legit website to get tickets?
CoSport was the company selling the tickets in the US. It was by lottery and you had to enter back in 2007 and pre pay. I got all the tickets I asked for except the opening ceremony (people are reselling opening ceremony tickets for 3k US). I even got table tennis and I think that would be a hot item in China, the block of tickets aloted to the US through CoSport were only avalable to US citizens.
I want resale Olympic Equestrian Ticket :
Date/Time Sport Session Detail Venue Price Levels
Sat
2008-08-09
06:30 - 10:30 Equestrian
• Team Eventing Dressage - Day 1
Hong Kong Olympic Equestrian Venue (Shatin)
¥80.00 - A
¥50.00 - B
I resale 4
A tickets
Sun
2008-08-10
06:30 - 10:30 Equestrian
• Team Eventing Dressage - Day 2
Hong Kong Olympic Equestrian Venue (Shatin)
¥80.00 - A
¥50.00 - B
I resale 4
A tickets
Tue
2008-08-12
19:15 - 00:30 Equestrian
• Team Eventing Jumping - Final
• Individual Eventing Jumping-Final
• Team Eventing Medal Ceremony
• Individual Eventing Medal Ceremony
Hong Kong Olympic Equestrian Venue (Shatin)
¥200.00 - A
¥100.00 - B
I resale 4
A tickets
Call me:+8613827603733 My name is Jam.
Hee iam now in Beijing and there is nowhere a ticket for sale??? I want to buy or swap tickets who got tickets!
I spoke to a lot of normal people and they where very happy with the games so let them be!!! don't spoil it for the person in the street and by the way before you complain about china check your house on chines made products ....hypocite
Ronnie
I need 2 (two) tickets for Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony at a reasonable price, please contact me, jmkt062@attglobal.net
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to buy olympic tickets, in google type buy beijing olympic ticket in bird's nest (or any other place you would like to see). And man people are selling tickets in a very low price. I bought 12 ticket they are all real.
You can also type buy olympic tickets. But you have to be in Beijing.
that's surprising... did anyone here hear the interview that KIIS FM's Ryan Seacrest did with Michael Phelps? It's amazing!
http://www.kiisfm.com/cc-common/losangeles/podcast/kiis.html
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