Turin 2006 has designed tourist packages to offer people attending the Turin Games the right combination of hotel accommodation and competition tickets. The packages make it possible for Games visitors, mostly families, to spend four days in Turin or in the surrounding mountains with tickets to two events. Ticketing director Giorgio Lauretta said, “in total there are about a dozen snow packages to follow mountain sports and 10 ice packages”. Clients can ask for one event to be exchanged for another or add extra events if they wish. The mountain visitors will stay in homes, while those in the city will have three-star hotels or better. According to Turin 2006 the real appeal of the packages is their low prices. Information can be obtained from the official Turin 2006 Web site.
All the official Turin 2006 products, including the Neve and Gliz soft toys, are selling fast. The most popular products include clothes, badges, key rings, mugs and ashtrays. The Asics t-shirts and caps are reportedly selling well as well as the Cattaneo ties, the new Paralympic mascot Aster, and Giochi Preziosi games and toys.
Atos Origin, the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic Games, announced Monday that the first of two technical rehearsals has been successfully completed for the Turin 2006 Games. Two hundred and ninety-two different scenarios were tested during the weeklong technical rehearsal of the IT, communications, sports and security system. The rehearsal emulated the busiest three days of the Olympic Games and involved a team of 200 IT professionals led by 26 Technical Rehearsal Officials from the organizing committee and Atos Origin. The technical rehearsal is a critical step in the preparation for the Games and is designed to ensure that the staff, technology and procedures are operating as effectively as possible. Any areas for development identified by the rehearsal will be fed into a second and final technical rehearsal phase to take place between December 12 and 16.
Following the 2006 Games the media village at Grugliasco near Turin will become a university campus for Science faculties. The campus will accommodate 420 people, which during the Games will be used by some of the accredited journalists.
