Ticket sales for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games will be available for purchase beginning October 2008. VANOC’s official supporter, Jet Set Sports, and its affiliate company CoSport, is the only company authorized to develop and supply official Vancouver 2010 hospitality packages in Canada that combines Games tickets, accommodation and ground transportation. All other tickets will be sold through VANOC directly or outside of Canada through the National Olympic Committees of individual countries. Tickets for events begin at $25.
Vancouver 2010 has selected Tickets.com as its official supplier of ticket services within Canada.
The majority of tickets for the 2010 Games will be sold to the Canadian public through the official website vancouver2010.com using Tickets.com’s technology. Vancouver 2010 said while the vast majority of ticket sales will occur online, VANOC will also work with Tickets.com to offer alternate purchase systems, such as phone and local ticket outlets.
Tickets.com is offering VANOC the technology and tools necessary to develop an online ticket redistribution system that will allow ticket holders to redistribute their tickets to other spectators if they can’t attend an event.
