Vancouver 2010 announced Thursday that tickets for the Paralympic Games will be affordable. Caley Denton, vice president of tickets for VANOC, says most of the tickets for the sports and ceremony events will start at $20 or less. Ticket prices will range from $15 for alpine skiing to between $20 and $50 for ice sledge hockey, while Opening Ceremony tickets will range from $30 to $175.
Group packages of 20 or more people will start at $10 and 85 per cent of all individual tickets will be priced at $20 or less.
Tickets go on sale May 6, 2009.
Denton said Vancouver 2010 officials arrived at the prices based on an “analysis of previous Games and what similar sports and different things go for here. We had a couple of goals in mind. One was accessibility and the second was affordability. And we want to grow the Paralympic movement within Canada”.
There will be 250,000 tickets for sale for the Paralympics compared to 1.6 million for the Olympics.
Tickets for 52 sport and ceremony events at seven venues will be on sale on a first-come, first-served basis.
